[Xastir] Compiling Xastir in a Raspberry Pi

[David Ranch]

Hello Lee,

Thanks for posting your compiling script.

Looking in your script, I see you are compiling locally on the SD card 
and most likely, it will also use /tmp for swap as the RPi has so little 
ram.  Doing this can wear out the user's SD card prematurely.  I always 
recommend for people to do the compiling on a USB attached HD or maybe a 
remote NFS mount.

--David


On 11/23/2013 06:15 PM, Lee Bengston wrote:
> Hello to the list members.
>
> Similar to what has been provided previously via the installation notes at
> http://www.xastir.org for Ubuntu, etc., I have posted a shell script for
> automating the process of downloading dependent packages, retrieving Xastir
> source code from CVS, and compiling & installing Xastir.
>
> >From a terminal in the Raspberry Pi, the shell script can be retrieved as
> follows:
>
> wget http://www.175moonlight.com/xastir/raspbian-xastir-cvsbuild.sh
>
> Next make sure the script is executable using the following command:
>
> chmod +x raspbian-xastir-cvsbuild.sh
>
> Then execute the script as follows:
>
> ./raspbian-xastir-cvsbuild.sh
>
> When the script finishes, you should have a compiled and installed version
> of Xastir fresh from the CVS respository.  I didn't bother installing
> either geotiff or gdal with the script, but "everything else" was included.
>
> If you already have a directory named src/xastir under your home directory,
> I would rename it before executing the script.  The script worked for me -
> I have a working and very up to date copy of Xastir on the Pi after
> executing it.
>
> The Pi is not a speed burner, so the whole process will definitely take
> some time, and of course an Internet connection is needed in order for the
> script to download Xastir and its dependencies.
>
> Regards,
> Lee - K5DAT
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