[Xastir] libtiff / geotiff install hiccup

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 07:57:01PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <towegn at tds.net> flavor, containing:
> presuming i found a source for libtiff, and was advised to use the  
> following instructions for loading on to mac os x

Where are you getting your instructions?  They seem to be fairly incomplete
and in at least some cases (where you were told to do manual copies and
ranlibs of libshp) they're not quite normal.  And it seems you're being told
to install just about every single package from sources without using any
package management (fink, macports, or whatever).  These do not seem to be
the best set of instructions to follow for a low-maintenance first-time install
onto a Mac.  The Xastir wiki has multiple sets of instructions for installing
onto Macs, and none suggest doing full, manual source installs of all these
packages.

But in general, the default behavior of "configure" is to install things
in /usr/local (that is, it is redundant to specify "--prefix=/usr/local").
So doing configure/make/make install on libtiff is a normal approach to 
installing it from source.  But it's strange to need to do all those steps
on a Mac, unless you're avoiding MacPorts and Fink for some particular
reason.  And there's a recent binary version available that would probably
suit you better unless you really want to learn exactly what all these
steps are for.

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