Re: [Xastir] Saving serial snapshots

2009-04-15 Thread Carl Makin
Hi Curt, On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Curt, WE7U wrote: I was going to use the Unix Epoch timestamps, Ok, use `date +%s` instead. and check that the file was actually done being written, but yea, that's the idea. Shouldn't matter. On Linux/FreeBSD/Mac OS X you can rename (or even delete) the

Re: [Xastir] Saving serial snapshots

2009-04-15 Thread Carl Makin
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Gerry Creager wrote: Personally, I think you ought to use the MD5 of the image as a seed for a RAND, and use that as the filename. A similar approach could be used for the extension. Ahhh, a challenge. Well, a bit of one. grin while [ 1 ]; do kill -SIGUSR1

Re: [Xastir] Saving serial snapshots

2009-04-15 Thread Carl Makin
Hi Jason, On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Jason KG4WSV wrote: On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Carl Makin c...@stagecraft.cx wrote: Um, the uuid thing only works on linux with /proc enabled. /dev/urandom usually has some good stuff in it... Yes, but the output isn't plaintext. /proc/sys/kernel

[Xastir] Xastir FreeBSD port for tracking CVS.

2009-12-18 Thread Carl Makin
Afternoon All, I've just created a FreeBSD port skeleton that will make it easy for FreeBSD users to track the most current sources in CVS. The information on how to use it, and where to get it are up on the Xastir Wiki at; http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/FreeBSD (Scroll to the

Re: [Xastir] Xastir FreeBSD port for tracking CVS.

2009-12-18 Thread Carl Makin
Hi Bob, On 19/12/2009, at 2:19 PM, Bob Nielsen wrote: What's wrong with just using CVS to update to the latest. It works with OS X, which is sort of FreeBSD-ish. It does use CVS to download the latest. The port just wraps it all up making it very easy and integrates it with the packages

Re: [Xastir] Xastir FreeBSD port for tracking CVS.

2009-12-18 Thread Carl Makin
Hi Curt, On 19/12/2009, at 3:22 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote: Or... Set up the port code to download a specific version from CVS via a CVS tag, which will make sure the same code is downloaded each time. Or set it up to download a specific *.tgz file from SourceForge which guarantees the same thing.

[Xastir] MacPorts Xastir updated to 1.9.8.

2010-05-09 Thread Carl Makin
Afternoon All, FYI the Xastir version in MacPorts has been updated to 1.9.8 Thanks to Ryan, ryandes...@macports. Carl. (vk1kcm) ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir

[Xastir] Virtualbox editions (was: Vmware Players latest version)

2010-06-24 Thread Carl Makin
Hi Curt, On 24/06/2010, at 9:13 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote: The only concern I'd have is: What OS'es are supported by VirtualBox? Do they support OSX? I know there's already an OSX VirtualBox has full support and commercial builds on Windows, OSX, Linux and Solaris X86. There is also an Open

Re: [Xastir] libtiff / geotiff install hiccup

2010-09-21 Thread Carl Makin
Hi Tom, On 21/09/2010, at 3:09 PM, T Wegner wrote: Following the sites instructions, I installed what I could using MacPorts. The instructions noted that shapelib and geotiff can not be installed with MacPorts, and provided the instructions I've been posting in my problem threads. This is

Re: [Xastir] libtiff / geotiff install hiccup

2010-09-23 Thread Carl Makin
Hi Tom, No problems with the effort, we're happy to help. On 22/09/2010, at 12:17 PM, T Wegner wrote: 6) ./configure --with-bdb-incdir=/opt/local/include/db42 --with- bdb-libdir=/opt/local/lib/db42 ./configure --with-bdb-incdir=/opt/local/include/db46/ --with-bdb-

Re: [Xastir] Mac OSX errors

2010-10-05 Thread Carl Makin
Evening All, On 05/10/2010, at 1:04 PM, Chase Turner wrote: After trying to build it all from source, mainly without a good instruction set- what most linux/command line nerds seem to enjoy is watching newbies such as myself struggle with substandard instructions and then snarky comments

[Xastir] FreeBSD port breakage

2012-06-14 Thread Carl Makin
Evening All, The FreeBSD port of Xastir is currently broken if you upgrade to the latest version of ImageMagick in ports. This is due to the ImageMagick port having HDRI support enabled by default. I have just submitted an update to the FreeBSD Xastir port skeleton that will remove the option

Re: [Xastir] GraphicsMagick include issue on Gentoo

2019-07-14 Thread Carl Makin
Hi Tom, > On 1 Jul 2019, at 11:22 am, Tom Russo wrote: > > Fixed in commit 7b6ecce5. > > On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 07:03:16PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the flavor, containing: >> I am removing the function call and the kludge that made us include >> private

Re: [Xastir] GraphicsMagick include issue on Gentoo

2019-07-14 Thread Carl Makin
> On 14 Jul 2019, at 7:26 pm, Carl Makin wrote: > Would it be worthwhile pushing this as a point release? Actually, don’t worry about it. I’ll add the patch manually. Thanks, Carl. (vk1kcm) ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.or

[Xastir] FreeBSD port for Xastir 2.1.4 submitted.

2019-07-15 Thread Carl Makin
I’ve just submitted the update for the FreeBSD port of Xastir 2.1.4. This update removes GDAL, any mention of ImageMagick and makes ports Shapelib a dependency (rather than optional). It compiles by default using gcc, but if GraphicsMagic is deselected in ‘make config’ then it will compile

Re: [Xastir] [BSD-Ham] FreeBSD port for Xastir 2.1.4 submitted.

2019-07-19 Thread Carl Makin
Hi Everyone, The port was committed last night, and is available via portsnap (or whatever) now. It will obviously take a little while to become available via pkg. Thanks to everyone who helped, especially the Xastir team. Carl. (vk1kcm) ___ Xastir

Re: [Xastir] [BSD-Ham] FreeBSD port for Xastir 2.1.4 submitted.

2019-07-18 Thread Carl Makin
Hi Tom, Everyone, > On 18 Jul 2019, at 2:09 am, Tom Russo wrote: > > Really, Carl just needs to work through whether to make the default Xastir > build use GraphicsMagick as the 2.1.0 port was (which forces Xastir to be > built with gcc8) or ImageMagick6 (which lets Xastir be built with clang,

Re: [Xastir] FreeBSD port for Xastir 2.1.4 submitted.

2019-07-15 Thread Carl Makin
Hi Tom, > On 15 Jul 2019, at 11:27 pm, Tom Russo wrote: > Is there a reason you had to remove all reference to imagemagick? Xastir > still builds with either ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick, and we test both. > There was brief discussion of removing ImageMagick support, but we discarded > that

Re: [Xastir] FreeBSD port for Xastir 2.1.4 submitted.

2019-07-16 Thread Carl Makin
Hi Tom, > On 16 Jul 2019, at 12:14 pm, Tom Russo wrote: > > Years ago, ImageMagick was so frequently breaking their API that we went to > preferring GraphicsMagick -- if configure detects both, it uses > GraphicsMagick. > But if only IM is installed, or if both are installed and GM doesn't

Re: [Xastir] MacBook Air error: Can't open display

2022-10-16 Thread Carl Makin
> On 17 Oct 2022, at 8:53 am, Larrie Deardurff wrote: > > Hi > > I am trying to get Xastir to run on my MacBook Air running OS 12 Monterrey. > I installed it via Macports. Install successful but Xastir starts but does > not run. Starting from terminal, I get the error that Xastir "can’t

[Xastir-dev] Test native speech for Mac OS X.

2011-05-21 Thread Carl Makin
Evening All, I've just re-implemented an interface to the native Mac speech routines in Xastir. It's not the nicest interface since the Core Foundation based API to the Mac speech functionality gets quite upset and yells at you if you call it after a fork so I used execl to run /usr/bin/say

[Xastir-dev] patch for pkglibdir is not a legitimate directory for SCRIPTS error

2012-02-04 Thread Carl Makin
Hi, I've just struck the pkglib is not a legitimate directory for SCRIPTS problem with automake 1.12. I've got a patch for it which has the side effect of moving the scripts directory from /usr/local/lib/xastir/ to /usr/local/share/xastir/scripts/. I personally prefer the new directory as it's

[Xastir-dev] Failures on FreeBSD builds

2012-06-12 Thread Carl Makin
Evening All, I have a couple of problems that I'm working through with the FreeBSD builds of Xastir. Firstly I'm getting a compile error; map_geo.c:2127: error: invalid operands to binary map_geo.c:2128: error: invalid operands to binary map_geo.c:2129: error: invalid operands to binary

[Xastir-dev] FreeBSD Xastir port update to 2.1.0 submitted

2018-02-24 Thread Carl Makin
Hi Everyone, FYI I have submitted an update to the FreeBSD Xastir port to bring it up to 2.1.0. If you want to play with it before it gets committed you can grab the diff from; https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=226187 Carl. (vk1kcm) — Bug 226187 Summary: