[Xastir] Quirks compiling Xastir on Centos6

[Curt, WE7U]

On Sat, 19 May 2012, David A. Ranch wrote:

> Yeah.. I haven't tried GM yet but the older version of IM seems to be working 
> well.  Is GM really that much faster, better, etc. than IM?

It's a fork of the IM code, so it is very similar, but seems to dot all the i's and cross the t's better than IM does for releases.  A bit more stable.


> Ok.. I'll give it a look but I take it that not many people use this feature 
> of Xastir?  Too bad Xastir can't just store this information in a flat file 
> and reload it upon restart.

It would be a lot of file access keeping it up-to-date.  No, most people don't know about this feature and don't use it.  I think it was in alpha stage last I recall.


> Yup.. I'll try that out.  Jerry, KA6HLD also turned me only some MapQuest 
> servers that offer tiled satellite images!  I'm going to try that one as well 
> and if I can get it to work, I'll see if I can upload the .geo to CVS.  I 
> think that would be a slick addition to Xastir.. that and maybe a merged 
> image + map view like how Google does it.

You can't upload via CVS unless you're listed as one of the developers on SourceForge.  You can submit it to a developer and have them bless it and commit it to CVS though.  Generally Tom Russo or myself are the best options for that.


> No.. not hard unless you want to do everything in RPMs (even the Perl 
> modules).  I've done all of that and there are also differences between 
> Centos5 and Centos6 that I've captured in my doc.

Roger.  I've done RPM's for OpenSuSE before, and in fact have a spec file and scripts I use to generate those.  Haven't done that in a while though.

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