Tom Russo wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:46:56AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > >> On 11/15/08, Tom Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:42:40PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron >>> collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: >>> >>> >> ------snip----- >> >> >>> > Fyi, I also installed the geotiff packages from the ubuntu repository >>> > instead of using the get-maptools script. Knowing from recent >>> > experience with other Debian based distros that the header files get >>> > installed in /usr/include/geotiff, I copied them into /usr/include >>> > before compiling Xastir, and it seems happy with that. >>> >>> >>> This is probably not best practice, as those copies will not be updated if >>> the package is updated. >>> >>> Better practice would be to tell configure to add /usr/include/geotiff to >>> the search path, which is easily done: >>> /path/to/configure CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/geotiff" >>> >>> Then you don't have orphaned copies of geotiff headers, and configure can >>> still find the ones that the package installs in the nonstandard place. >>> >>> >> For my own use, it's probably 6 one way and half a dozen the other. >> If I do the configure mod, I'll lose it every time I rebuild Xastir. >> > > Not entirely true. The configure options are stored in config.log and > config.status, and if you simply do a "make" when configure has changed, > configure will be rerun with the same options you used last time. Or you > can cut/paste from the comment line of config.log that captures the > line that you used last time. > > Or you can do what I do: keep a file in your build directory called > "reconfigure" and then run ". ./reconfigure" instead of remembering the > options you needed to get it done. > > >> For a pre-built VM to be distributed to others, I think I'll just >> install geotiff from souce as shown in the wiki. >> > > It's very annoying that the packagers of the Ubuntu (and Debian?) geotiff > package chose to place the header files in a nonstandard location. > > FWIW, I follow the Ubuntu 7.04 Wiki fairly closely on my Debian (v4.0 Etch) systems (two desktop and one laptop installation) and xastir works first time, every time. geotiff headers are installed in /usr/local/include.
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