[Xastir] newbie... problems with compiling from source

[John Ronan]

On 04/12/17 19:22, Orrin Winton wrote:
> Hello Curt & company, have spent hours on this and am not getting the
> results predicted in the compile procedure:
> 
> At https://xastir.org/index.php/HowTo:Ubuntu_14.04-17.04
> 
> I do this:
> 
> git clone https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir.git
> 
> and get the expected result.
> 
> Then I do this:
> cd Xastir
> ./bootstrap.sh           and yes, Makefile.am is created.
> 
> I then skip the gdal stuff, because it says that's optional.
> 
> Then I do this:
> Could you send the output from 'pwd' and then 'ls' before you run this
please.

John
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> cd ~/src/Xastir
> mkdir build
> cd build
> ../configure CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/geotiff"
> 
> and the response i get is: bash:  ../configure: No such file or directory
> 
> and I definitely don't get the display of the list of options, I'm in the
> directory 'build' and if i type 'make' i get:
> 
> make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.
> 
> The directory 'build' is empty.
> 
> Other notes: This is Ubuntu 16.04. I had 14.04, and a downloaded Xastir binary
> working quite well, but i crashed the computer with something not related to
> Xastir, re-installed 14.04, could not get a binary to function (lots of
> "can't find fonts" messages, but no map display at all). So i upgraded
> to 16.04,
> could not get a binary to work, so am trying to compile from source, and
> having the above problem.
> 
> Thanks for any help on this.
> 
> Orrin WN1Z CN90
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