[Xastir] Quirks compiling Xastir on Centos6

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 04:31:54AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <curt.we7u at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> > TBD: I don't think we can deal with colorspace != RGBTBD: I don't think we 
> > can deal with colorspace != RGBTBD: I don't think we can deal with colorspace 
> > != RGBTBD: I don't think we can deal with colorspace != RGB
> 
> I'm not seeing that TBD message here.  Perhaps you're running your screen in 8-bit or 24-bit mode?  Try 16 or 32-bit mode instead.  There aren't enough bits in 8-bit to make nice maps, although I used to run it this way on Solaris years ago.  I seem to remember there may be some issues with 24-bit screens as well.

I have been running with 24-bit for years.  There's nothing wrong with
24-bit support.

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