Re: [Xastir] Cygwin problems

2006-11-07 Thread Curt Mills
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, David Flood wrote: > As an alternative to Cygwin, I've been playing with real systems under the > VMWare player but have yet to find a distribution of Linux or BSD that is > "lite" enough to have a small footprint but will still compile Xastir and > related sub-programs. So I

Re: [Xastir] My latest Ubuntu adventures

2006-11-07 Thread Curt Mills
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Stephen Brown Jr wrote: > How > do I enable map caching? I believe that was a configure option but can't > seem to find reference to it anywhere. You need the Berkeley DB library and the headers to go with it. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot c

[Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

2006-11-07 Thread Amateur Radio WB8NUT
I tried this method and it works very well. Go to www.vmware.com and download the free VMWare Player. Install on your windows machine. Also on the VMWare site, download a virtual machine for Mepis Linux, Ubuntu Linux, or Kubuntu. Once it is downloaded, start the virtual machine in the VMWa

Re: [Xastir] Cygwin problems

2006-11-07 Thread David Flood
Jason Winningham wrote: On the subject of a precompiled xastir-cygwin binary, is there such a thing as a static executable for cygwin? I'm still thinking that would be the easiest way to distribute binaries on any platform, if it could be accomplished. Unfortunately, due to their licensing

Re: [Xastir] My latest Ubuntu adventures

2006-11-07 Thread Tom Russo
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 08:41:41PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > Tom Russo wrote: > > > >Thanks for posting the detailed Ubuntu install process (all of you who > >have contributed). One of the SAR teams I've on has recently gotten

Re: [Xastir] Xastir/Cygwin, a little history

2006-11-07 Thread Jay Hurt
--snip-- Go to , which is the main SourceForge project page, then from there you can find the Tracker->Bugs and Tracker->Feature Requests pages. Put all of those links on the Wiki. Roger that, maybe someone else can tackle the above, while I tackle the

Re: [Xastir] My latest Ubuntu adventures

2006-11-07 Thread Darryl Gibson
Tom Russo wrote: Thanks for posting the detailed Ubuntu install process (all of you who have contributed). One of the SAR teams I've on has recently gotten two laptops with Ubuntu installed on them, and I was planning to install Xastir on there --- and dreading it. Since they were planning

Re: [Xastir] Xastir/Cygwin, a little history

2006-11-07 Thread Darryl Gibson
Curt, WE7U wrote: On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Darryl Gibson wrote: There should be links to the bug reports, and Feature Requests on the Wiki main page. If I knew where they where off the top of my head, I'd do it now. Yes. Heartily agreed. Go to , which is

Re: [Xastir] My latest Ubuntu adventures

2006-11-07 Thread Tom Russo
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 07:59:48PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > Ok awesome, I'll add that in and re-compile now. One thing I forgot to > mention also was that you will need to have the universe source repositories > in /etc/apt/sou

Re: [Xastir] My latest Ubuntu adventures

2006-11-07 Thread Stephen Brown Jr
Ok awesome, I'll add that in and re-compile now. One thing I forgot to mention also was that you will need to have the universe source repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list and as always, run sudo apt-get update afterwards I'm still working on getting a .deb package setup and maybe even a rep

Re: [Xastir] My latest Ubuntu adventures

2006-11-07 Thread Tom Russo
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 07:20:18PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > xastir 1.8.4 has been configured to use the following > options and external libraries: > > Building with AX25 . : yes > Building with

Re: [Xastir] Cygwin problems

2006-11-07 Thread Tom Russo
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 06:00:10PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 07:02 -0800, Curt, WE7U wrote: > > On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Tom Russo wrote: > > > > > This has been covered before, and should probably be added to

[Xastir] My latest Ubuntu adventures

2006-11-07 Thread Stephen Brown Jr
Well, it's too early to see it yet as I am still testing, but compiling Xastir from source may be a whole lot easier than we originally thought. So far, here is what I did on a fresh install to get Xastir 6.06 compiled from source using the tarball off of sourceforge(I didn't go the CVS route, not

Re: [Xastir] Cygwin problems

2006-11-07 Thread Jason Winningham
On Nov 7, 2006, at 5:00 PM, Steve West-Fisher wrote: You can also just not build ImageMagick support, which was the route I took. All this talk about it caused me to dig out the system I'd loaded with cygwin, and I realize that I didn't have ImageMagick support and hadn't missed it. My p

Re: [Xastir] Cygwin problems

2006-11-07 Thread Steve West-Fisher
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 07:02 -0800, Curt, WE7U wrote: > On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Tom Russo wrote: > > > This has been covered before, and should probably be added to README.win32. > > > > There are three approaches: > > 1) find the missing DLLS and install them > > 2) "downgrade" X11 do a version th

Re: [Xastir] Interface glitch

2006-11-07 Thread John Ronan
I'll dig the laptop out of my car tomorrow and see if I can reproduce it as well... John On 7 Nov 2006, at 16:55, Eric Christensen wrote: Curt, I'll see if I can come up with the right combination to make it easily reproducible. Eric KF4OTN Curt, WE7U wrote: On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, John Rona

Re: [Xastir] Interface glitch

2006-11-07 Thread Jeremy Utley
I had the same type of symptoms on my fresh FC6 installation yesterday, so count me as #4. Curt, if there's any type of debugging I can help you with on this problem, let me know. Jeremy On 11/7/06, Eric Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Curt, I'll see if I can come up with the right comb

Re: [Xastir] Interface glitch

2006-11-07 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Eric Christensen wrote: > I'll see if I can come up with the right combination to make it easily > reproducible. Perfect. That'll save me time and I can just see about fixing it instead of spinning my wheels. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~a

Re: [Xastir] Interface glitch

2006-11-07 Thread Eric Christensen
Curt, I'll see if I can come up with the right combination to make it easily reproducible. Eric KF4OTN Curt, WE7U wrote: > On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, John Ronan wrote: > >> Come to think of it.. that happened me as well. >> >> John >> >> On 6 Nov 2006, at 21:29, Eric Christensen wrote: >> >>> I had si

Re: [Xastir] Interface glitch

2006-11-07 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, John Ronan wrote: > Come to think of it.. that happened me as well. > > John > > On 6 Nov 2006, at 21:29, Eric Christensen wrote: > > > I had similar problems earlier, too. I would add an interface and > > then > > the interface box would show up with no buttons. If I closed

Re: [Xastir] Xastir/Cygwin, a little history

2006-11-07 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Darryl Gibson wrote: > There should be links to the bug reports, and Feature Requests on the > Wiki main page. If I knew where they where off the top of my head, I'd > do it now. Yes. Heartily agreed. Go to , which is the main SourceF

Re: [Xastir] Interface glitch

2006-11-07 Thread John Ronan
Come to think of it.. that happened me as well. John On 6 Nov 2006, at 21:29, Eric Christensen wrote: I had similar problems earlier, too. I would add an interface and then the interface box would show up with no buttons. If I closed the interface box and open it right back up it would all