On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Tony Hunt wrote:
A while back I made a sugestion for a updated LSB version of xastir. I think the last one released was early 2008. A newer one would be real handy.
The LSB distro is a easy fast track to getting Xastir going and going well on a few different machines now. Ive noticed more and more distros appearing now awith LSB support as standard. Just another push on the LSB front . Please . Sorry Curt
No need to be sorry! If I followed my usual script I most likely told you that I didn't have time right then and suggested that you keep bringing it up later, for when I (or perhaps others) have the free time. I can't remember the details about the problems I had last time which prevented a new version. I remember that getting the LSB compile going was a major challenge and a major time-suck the _first_ time around. I believe I ran into problems later trying to re-do it, perhaps one of the libraries changed to make it more difficult or it might have been a 32-bit/64-bit changeover problem. I've switched many of my boxes over to 64-bit OpenSuSE-11.x now. Look at the xastir/scripts/ directory and you'll see quite a few LSB-related scripts that I wrote from scratch the first time around. I used those to build various static libraries on the way to compiling a static LSB-Xastir. I'd have to start on those scripts one-at-a-time to try to build a new static version. If someone else would like to tackle this, I could provide some support, but I'm not sure I have the free time to tackle it on my own just yet. -- Curt, WE7U. <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer> APRS: Where it's at! <http://www.xastir.org> Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
