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

[Curt, WE7U]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2017, Tom Russo wrote:

> It sounds like bootstrap didn't work, because bootstrap is supposed to create
> configure in the Xastir source tree.  Could you post the output of bootstrap.sh
> and perhaps the output of "ls -lrt" in the top-level Xastir directory?

It would probably be good to add a test for "automake", "autoconf", etc into the "update-xastir" script to produce legible instructions to the user. Could request them to install or otherwise make those tools runnable from $PATH...

For people new to compiling, or compiling using GNU tools, I'm sure it's confusing. Add to that the complexity of looking through "config.status" to figure out why Imagemagick or Graphicsmagick didn't compile in and you've got some serious befuddled users.

Not that any of the above has anything directly to do with this thread, but it's only a single step sideways from the topic.

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