[Xastir] New Xastir build

[Joseph LaFerla]

Yes Lee I understand your logic.  However I have since run the update-xastir script and it seemed to work.  Took a long time and at various points showed warnings of variables that are set and not used but it continued running.  I am trying to find where I could use the feature of support for wxnow.txt weather stations.  I looked in interface control and could not find it.  Also, I am interested in the support for proportional fonts in map labels.

I wonder if someone would point me in the right direction please or to the wiki where I can check it out myself.

Thanks.

Joe


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From: Lee Bengston
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 9:44 PM
To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion
Subject: Re: [Xastir] New Xastir build

On Feb 14, 2018 9:12 PM, "Joseph LaFerla" <joe at laferla.ca> wrote:

Sorry Tom, I can see your confusion.  What I did last time was to run Lee’s
script for Raspberry pi.   After that, all I did some time ago was to run
./update-xastir in ~./src/Xastir.  Looking at the update-xastir script, it
seems that’s what I should do.  Is that correct?  And if I run
update-xastir periodically, I should be keeping it up to date, without the
need to do separate compile/make.

Joe


The update-xastir script should work.  I prefer to do it more cleanly by
renaming
~./src/Xastir to something like ~./src/Xastir2, and then doing the
following wiki steps.

>From inside ~/src, issue ...

git clone https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir.git

  cd Xastir
   ./bootstrap.sh

   cd ~/src/Xastir
    mkdir build
    cd build
    ../configure CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/geotiff"

   make
   sudo make install

Just a personal preference of working with a brand new source download of
the latest and greatest. You could also get the same result by doing the
same directory renaming and running my script.  As Tom pointed out, the
script would try to reinstall the dependent packages, so it's kind of
overkill.

Lee - K5DAT


From: Tom Russo
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 6:15 PM
To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion
Subject: Re: [Xastir] New Xastir build

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 05:50:02PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron
collision of the <joe at laferla.ca> flavor, containing:
> I was just wondering whether I should install the new Xastir alongside
the current version (in new directories of course) or simply run the
Lee???s script in the current directories.  I have never had to do this
before, so would appreciate some help.  Or should I uninstall the current
version, which is installed from source.

When you say you have already installed Xastir from source, was it source
from
Git, or the old 2.0.8 tarball from Sourceforge?

There is NO difference between the 2.1.0 tarball code and the git master
branch except a version number.  If you're already building from git master,
don't bother installing 2.1.0.  You can just "git pull" in your source clone
directory again and rebuild/reinstall in the same build directory you used
last time.  That's what using the live git version is all about --- you
don't
bother to wait for releases (which these days come very rarely, although I
hope to fix that), and you get the incremental fixes as they happen.

If you're using 2.0.8 tarballs, just pull down the 2.1.0 tarball from
Github and do what you did to build  and install 2.0.8 --- it'll overwrite
the
old one.

I can't really see any reason to install the new one in a separate place, or
to remove the old one first.  The only reason I can see to uninstall the old
version is if it's really old (like 2.0.6 or 2.0.4) and you want to get rid
of the old, broken .geos for servers that went away and which those old
versions installed.

The only reason I can see to uninstall Xastir before upgrading is if the
old install is from a package management system --- in that case, the new
source-built would be installing to /usr/local, and the old was installed in
/usr.  And then there are issues with fixing up your xastir.cnf and other
config files.  But that's not what you said you did, so that's not an issue.

I don't even see much benefit to re-running helper scripts to do the new
build,
either.  Most of those are great ways to get the first build done, because
they
take care of installing all the dependent libraries for you.  But if you've
already got a build, you've already got those libraries, and the rest of it
is
just "configure" and "make" and "sudo make install."

--
Tom Russo    KM5VY
Tijeras, NM

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