[Xastir] Xastir on the Raspberry Pi

[John Gorkos]

The problem is, it doesn’t work.  The underlying dependencies aren’t
fulfilled properly.  The problem is something like this:  gpsmanshp
requires Tcl8.4 (because that’s how it’s compiled), but raspbian ships
with Tcl8.5.  The “correct” answer is to recompile/repackage gpsman with
Tcl8.5, but there’s a huge number of dependencies that go into compiling
Tcl, and it rapidly gets overwhelming.  At the end of the day, I’d be
running my own Debian pool for a one-off architecture, which really isn’t
where I want to go.  Additionally, it takes over an hour to compile a new
version of Xastir on the PI (I’m not cross compiling, I’m doing it
natively on a Pi).  I want to get this to a point where it’s automatic,
and pull the daily snapshot, compile it, and upload it to the web server
with no human intervention.

Xastir as it’s compiled now is perfectly capable of using a GPS.  Here’s
the description of GPSMan:
Description: GPS data graphical manager
 GPS Manager (GPSMan) is a graphical manager of GPS data that makes
possible the preparation, inspection and edition of GPS data in a friendly
environment. GPSMan supports communication and real-time logging
 with both Garmin and Lowrance receivers and accepts real-time logging
information in NMEA 0183 from any GPS receiver.
Do you use the GPSMan capability of Xastir?  Can someone tell me what it
does?  If it’s mission critical, I’ll see what I can do.  I’m already
doing that for geotiff (I’m going to compile my own library against
graphicsmagick and put it up on the web site, as well.)


John Gorkos

On 11/23/13, 2:13 PM, "David A Aitcheson" <david.aitcheson at gmail.com>
wrote:

>John,
>
>Before you kill the GPSman version could you keep it in a separate
>directory in your new directory tree?
>
>I ask this due to learning of the work being done by the folks at TNC-X
>(see http://www.tnc-x.com/TNCPi.htm ).
>
>Some of us may want the GPS version of your build and some may not.
>
>Just a thought...
>
>73
>Dave
>KB3EFS
>
>
>
>On 11/23/2013 11:48 AM, John Gorkos wrote:
>> Well, dang.  The GOOD news is that Xastir still works and runs.  The bad
>> news is that you probably can¹t import GPS tracks from Garmin GPS
>>devices
>> (which is what GPSman does).  Personally, I¹m cool with that, since I
>> don¹t have any Garmin GPS units that I talk to that way.
>
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