[Xastir] Xastir 2.0.0 on Arch Linux

[Mike H]

Hi all, I hope I can close this two-month old thread by announcing the 
availability of an Arch Linux PKGBUILD that builds xastir from CVS.  
Recall that I could build xastir 2.0.0 from source, but was unable to 
develop a package that worked in the Arch Build System (ABS).  Lee 
(K5DAT) and Tom (KM5VY) were spot-on in their suspicions that the 
problem was caused by a conflict between /usr/local/share/ and 
/usr/share/ directory structure that Arch uses.  This was addressed and 
fixed by the devs in a CVS update.  Tom also helped isolate the problem 
by providing me with a patch for the makefile that exists in the stable 
repo.

I wrote a PKGBUILD called xastir-cvs and placed it in the Arch User 
Repository (AUR).   This will allow Arch users to install bleeding-edge 
xastir from the CVS with just a single command if they are using an AUR 
helper like yaourt or clyde.  The ABS does not allow for user 
interaction during the build, so if the optional festival sound support 
package is desired it must be installed before building xastir.  No 
editing of the script is required, just make sure festival is installed 
before installing xastir.  I have been running xastir with festival on 
my Arch system for a few days and have not experienced any problems.

The highly unscientific ranking system at distrowatch.com currently 
lists Arch as the 7th most popular Linux distribution.  Maybe the easy 
availability of xastir there will increase its user base just a bit.

Mike WB2FKO/DL