On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 07:57:01PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > presuming i found a source for libtiff, and was advised to use the > following instructions for loading on to mac os x
Where are you getting your instructions? They seem to be fairly incomplete and in at least some cases (where you were told to do manual copies and ranlibs of libshp) they're not quite normal. And it seems you're being told to install just about every single package from sources without using any package management (fink, macports, or whatever). These do not seem to be the best set of instructions to follow for a low-maintenance first-time install onto a Mac. The Xastir wiki has multiple sets of instructions for installing onto Macs, and none suggest doing full, manual source installs of all these packages. But in general, the default behavior of "configure" is to install things in /usr/local (that is, it is redundant to specify "--prefix=/usr/local"). So doing configure/make/make install on libtiff is a normal approach to installing it from source. But it's strange to need to do all those steps on a Mac, unless you're avoiding MacPorts and Fink for some particular reason. And there's a recent binary version available that would probably suit you better unless you really want to learn exactly what all these steps are for. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
