[Xastir] Confused..HELP

[David Lane]

Thanks Tom,

I had that thought after I sent my first post. I ran through the first few steps and it worked so I suspect that was the core problem. It’s been a bit since I did my last full compile. Good documentation so my hat is off to whoever did the work. 

David

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> On Nov 6, 2020, at 17:26, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> 
> You did not install the autoconf/automake tools.  You may have skipped
> that setion of the instructions.
> 
> Please see https://xastir.org/index.php/HowTo:Raspbian  again, where
> you'll find a list of prerequisites steps prior to the section you quoted,
> under the heading "Start installing packages".
> 
> If you skip the steps in that section, nothing after it will work.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 09:24:33PM +0000, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <kb8uih88 at charter.net> flavor, containing:
>> Hi, newbie here. I can't get Xastir to load properly on my Pi 3.
>> Excerpt below from https://xastir.org/index.php/HowTo:Raspbian [1] 
>> When I asked for the bootstrap command to run I got a response of 
>> root at raspberrypi:~/src/Xastir# ./bootstrap.sh 6) Removing
>> autom4te.cache directory... 5) Running aclocal..../bootstrap.sh: 15:
>> ./bootstrap.sh: aclocal: not foundroot at raspberrypi:~/src/Xastir# 
>> Can anyone let me know what didn't load correctly?
>> Thanks
>> 
>> GET XASTIR SOURCE CODE FROM THE GITHUB REPOSITORY
>> 
>>    In this method, you get your source code directly from the repository
>> the developers use to work on the software. Here's the step-by-step
>> method for getting it this way.
>> 
>>    You can make different choices here for where you want to store your
>> code. This example puts it in a src directory under the user's home
>> directory:
>> 
>>     mkdir ~/src cd ~/src 
>> 
>>    Then issue the following command to retrieve the latest Xastir code:
>> 
>>     git clone https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir.git [2] 
>> 
>> The above command could take a while to finish if you're on a slow
>> link, as there are a lot of files to download.
>> 
>>    * Run bootstrap to generate Makefile.am and configure:
>> 
>>     cd Xastir ./bootstrap.sh
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Links:
>> ------
>> [1] https://xastir.org/index.php/HowTo:Raspbian
>> [2] https://github.com/Xastir/Xastirgit
>> 
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