On 4/8/09, Rick Green <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Dale Seaburg wrote: > >> When I tried to recompile xastir 1.9.5, I ran into more "missing" lib's, >> tools, etc than you can shake a stick at. I spent my whole evening trying >> to >> chase each missing component. Often, a missing component needed something >> >> else for *it* to work. Sheesh! What a rat-race. That's when the >> lightbulb >> turned on and I remembered back to my earlier days of linux and the >> developer >> install option. I am backing up my effort on the Q1U as I write this. >> Tonight, I'll do the Xubunto 8.10 install *again* choosing the custom >> path. >> There may be an easier method, but it's not obvious to me at the moment. >> I >> finally got openMotif to compile - I couldn't find any of the Xm/XM* stuff >> >> needed by xastir. But, I still am getting an error when trying to compile >> >> pcre. lcms compiled OK. gdal installed OK by apt-get. And, on it goes >> like >> a cat chasing it's tail... >> > One of the beauties of the debian-based distros is the 'apt' system, > which does a beautiful job of pulling in dependencies for you. > If you are running the distros xastir package, and you want to roll > your own from source, I don't believe you need to reinstall the entire OS, > but just install the missing packages: > > sudo apt-get install build-essential cvs make automake > ...will pull in the compiler and tools > > sudo apt-get build-dep xastir > ...will pull in all the -dev header packages necessary to compile and > link the version in the distro's repository. The libraries themselves > should have been pulled in along with the distros xastir package. > > At this point, you should be able to grab a source tree from a tarball > or CVS, and configure and compile it. The output of configure will tell > you about any libraries which are needed for new features not included in > the distros version, but at this point you'll have all the latest bugfixes > and tweaks, and probably only be lacking the latest 'experimental' map > types.
Also, the Installation notes at http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:Ubuntu_8.10 show what libraries are needed in support of the various capabilities when compiling Xastir from source. Lee - K5DAT Murphy, TX _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
