[Xastir] Snapshot problems

[Kevin Ratcliff]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengston at gmail.com> wrote:
> When Ubuntu 9.04 came out, I tried compiling without xorg-dev, and it
> worked again.  Although I didn't write the HowTo for Ubuntu 9.04, I
> mentioned the ability to compile without xorg-dev to Kevin R., who did
> write it, and I believe he (and later several others following the
> same HowTo) installed without xorg-dev and did not experience
> difficulty.  In hindsight snapshots probably didn't work - shows how
> often a bunch of us actually use that feature.  Because xorg-dev had
> broken KDE 4 in another distribution, and I hadn't tried Kubuntu 9.04
> yet, I thought it best to leave out xorg-dev in the 9.04 HowTo given
> things seemed to work without it.

I have not followed all of the mailing list threads lately, but that's
my recollection as well. It looks like xorg-dev was in the original
Ubuntu 9.04 HowTo when I posted it, but I took it out after feedback
on the mailing list that indicated it wasn't needed. Here's the two
versions:

http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php?title=HowTo:Ubuntu_9.04&diff=3129&oldid=3120

Sorry about that, I didn't omitting it was causing an issue. I guess I
never use the snapshot feature!

> After compiling Xastir without xorg-dev today in the new Kubuntu 9.10
> VM, I then added xorg-dev and recompiled.  It didn't harm KDE 4, and
> snapshots worked.  So we're definitely good to go with xorg-dev back
> in the wiki.

Thanks Lee and Tom for figuring this out, and for updating the wiki
instructions!

Kevin
KB9MQU