Where are you getting your instructions?
Well, it's a long story, but I started here:
http://www.xastir.org/wiki/Installation_Notes#Mac_OSX
looked into the VMWare option, decided against since it was a limited
time deal, and didn't want to be locked out down the road - had no
idea how long it might take me to get things going.
so next went here:
http://www.xastir.org/wiki/HowTo:Mac_OSX
but when I saw this:
"Some people have reported problems with Fink. I haven't encountered
any yet so I still use it. Fink is a package manager that will keep
you from having to build all the Xastir dependencies from source.
I also continue to use fink. I have had problems with FinkCommander
(the GUI interface for Fink) but the core utilities continue to work
fine. Dick."
I thought, 1) if people are having trouble with it, I want to avoid
it, as I have no command line experience, and 2) as in the above
example and others, it was unclear to me exactly who was saying what,
and to whom . . . at times it sounded as though the author and "Dick"
were 2 different people, at other times, not.
continuing down the list, I went here:
http://www.xastir.org/wiki/Macports
which directed me to here:
http://n1ofz.connares.org/software/Xastir
which gives me a "network problem" message and no access
so I went here:
http://www.xastir.org/wiki/MacOSXpackage
which was another dead end
next here:
http://www.xastir.org/wiki/MacOSXsource
directing me to the same dead end
and then:
http://www.xastir.org/wiki/Notes:Mac_OSX
much of which I did not understand, and in the end, was once again
referenced to that same dead end.
SO . . .
I did a search for "Xastir" and "Mac" and landed here:
http://www.wx9grb.org/xastir/mac.htm
and I thought, Eureka! I'm familiar with the Packerland group (name
credibility via Skywarn), and they seem to have the information from
the site I was unable to access above in all those dead end instances,
and reading through it, it seemed oriented toward operators such as
myself, with little command line experience, and quite doable.
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 where I've run into the
troubles.
I did a search for libtiff and mac this evening, came up with a source
(for a different program, but like this one, need to install it first
- called it a "dependency"), and the instructions in the last post. I
did that, watched as the screen scrolled by with lots of alpha-
numerics, saw a number of "no" conditions and it ended with some
warning/errors. When I tried to continue with the geotiff configure
and make, I ended up with the same "configure: error: You will need to
substantially rewrite libxtiff to build libgeotiff without libtiff"
message. I moved the libtiff library out of the tiff-3.9.4 folder and
into the libgeotiff folder thinking it did not know the where the
libtiff library was, that did nothing, and I stopped.
I believe I have hit a brick wall in this direction. Would like the
ability to use USGS geoTIFF's but unless someone can point me in a
direction to solve the libtiff conundrum, I guess I could live without
it, or wait until someone develops something to make this work
seamlessly.
Re: other discussion about intel mac, it will be some time before I
can afford a new macbook, and even then, I wouldn't dream of taking it
into the field - only older computers for that for me.
Thanks for listening, the help you've given thus far, and any advice
you may provide yet.
73
Tom
On Sep 20, 2010, at 20:28, Tom Russo wrote:
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."
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