Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-11 Thread Lee Bengston
On 7/6/07, Curt, WE7U <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wiki's are great, I use them all the time. However: Our particular Wiki seems (to me) to be a bit difficult to find, particularly if you don't know it exists. I don't know - a google search on xastir finds www.xastir.org, and then click on Xa

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Tom Russo wrote: > > Near as I can tell the only things that should cause > > configure.ac/acinclude.m4 to bomb out right now would be the lack of > > Motif/Lesstif libraries or headers, or trying to enable Davis > > weather station support with the wrong config options. I thi

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-10 Thread Tom Russo
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 01:26:04PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On 7/8/07, Steve Friis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What you have below is great. Just one thought here though. In the > > scripts folder there is a script file

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-08 Thread Lee Bengston
On 7/8/07, Steve Friis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What you have below is great. Just one thought here though. In the scripts folder there is a script file that pretty much installs everything. Is this going to go away? I think it sure made the install easy. Gives you all the needed libraries.

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-08 Thread Steve Friis
What you have below is great. Just one thought here though. In the scripts folder there is a script file that pretty much installs everything. Is this going to go away? I think it sure made the install easy. Gives you all the needed libraries. Steve/WM5Z Lee Bengston wrote: On 7/6/07, Curt

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-08 Thread Lee Bengston
On 7/7/07, Lee Bengston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/7/07, Tom Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you have an account on the Wiki, and have you got wikieditor > privileges? > If not, please register and then email to me, Curt and Chuck, and one of > us > will make sure your account gets t

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-07 Thread Lee Bengston
On 7/7/07, Tom Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you have an account on the Wiki, and have you got wikieditor privileges? If not, please register and then email to me, Curt and Chuck, and one of us will make sure your account gets the appropriate privileges so you can actually do the editing y

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-07 Thread Tom Russo
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 06:02:12PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > Noticing in the Wiki there was not an equivalent of the HowTo:Ubuntu 6.10 or > 7.04 for openSUSE, I set out to try to accomplish the same tasks that are > layed

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Tom Russo
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 03:17:12PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Alex Carver wrote: > > > Yep, Motif/Lesstif is one that bombs out immediately. > > I just tried to recompile after removing Lesstif > > (without r

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Lee Bengston
On 7/6/07, Curt, WE7U <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The latest CVS: MINIMUM OPTIONS: Building with ShapeLib (Vector maps) . : yes RECOMMENDED OPTIONS: Building with GraphicsMagick/ImageMagick (Raster maps) : yes (GraphicsMagick) Building with pcre (Shapefile customization)

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Alex Carver wrote: > Yep, Motif/Lesstif is one that bombs out immediately. > I just tried to recompile after removing Lesstif > (without realizing that Motif development libraries > weren't installed) and the compile ended. Near as I can tell the only things that should cause

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
The latest CVS: MINIMUM OPTIONS: Building with ShapeLib (Vector maps) . : yes RECOMMENDED OPTIONS: Building with GraphicsMagick/ImageMagick (Raster maps) : yes (GraphicsMagick) Building with pcre (Shapefile customization) . : yes Building with dbfawk (Shapefile c

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Alex Carver wrote: > Yep, Motif/Lesstif is one that bombs out immediately. > I just tried to recompile after removing Lesstif > (without realizing that Motif development libraries > weren't installed) and the compile ended. > > I had to go back to Lesstif, the OpenMotif source

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Alex Carver
--- "Curt, WE7U" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems to me there may be a few things that cause > it to exit > prematurely, but I can't think of what they might be > right now. > Perhaps Motif/Lesstif was one such? Yep, Motif/Lesstif is one that bombs out immediately. I just tried to recompile

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Curt, WE7U wrote: > the only way I get fourced of my Yea... That's the right spelling. Trust me... -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illi

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Richard Polivka wrote: > This may take a bit of doing but I would not break the configure > routine because of a missing library. I would crunch through the > whole config process and then display which libraries/programs are > missing at the end. We attempt to do that now. A

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Steve Friis wrote: > Yea, but if it is all in documentation, then us newbies wouldn't keep > bothering you Guru's with all these questions. BTW_FWIW, I think all you > guys have done a fantastic job, in writing the software, in documenting > what has already been published, and

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Steve Friis
Lee Bengston wrote: On 7/6/07, Curt, WE7U <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Downloading/compiling/installing libraries under Xastir's control opens up way too many additional problems. I'm pretty sure we don't want to go there. I don't think either Xastir or the "compiling utilities" need to be

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
This is what the current CVS dumps out on my system, plus Xastir's Help->About line now shows "libcurl" at the end. As you can see I'm in either in that "perfectionist" class that was talked about, or I must have everything installed for testing. Not sure which... -

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Steve Friis
that below looks great!!! Steve/WM5Z Curt, WE7U wrote: On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, John Ronan wrote: Maybe with a 'Suggested Minimum', 'For the adventurous', 'Developer' tags/headings or something? How about something like this? --

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Fred Erickson
On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 12:13 -0700, Curt, WE7U wrote: > On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Curt, WE7U wrote: > > > MINIMUM OPTIONS: > > Building with ShapeLib . : yes (Internal) > > > > RECOMMENDED OPTIONS: > > Building with GraphicsMagick/ImageMagick ... : GraphicsMagick >

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Curt, WE7U wrote: > MINIMUM OPTIONS: > Building with ShapeLib . : yes (Internal) > > RECOMMENDED OPTIONS: > Building with GraphicsMagick/ImageMagick ... : GraphicsMagick > Building with pcre . : yes > B

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Richard Polivka
The idea of the config chart with the various levels is a good thing and will go a long way. This may take a bit of doing but I would not break the configure routine because of a missing library. I would crunch through the whole config process and then display which libraries/programs are miss

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Lee Bengston
On 7/6/07, Curt, WE7U <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, John Ronan wrote: > Maybe with a 'Suggested Minimum', 'For the adventurous', 'Developer' > tags/headings or something? How about something like this? I think it looks great. Thanks, Lee - K5DAT Murphy, TX ___

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Lee Bengston wrote: > I don't think either Xastir or the "compiling utilities" need to be > modified. I'm thinking just a table in the Wiki that documents what each > library does for Xastir would suffice. For example, a newbie seeing a > library named libax25 or GPSMan witho

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Lee Bengston
On 7/6/07, Curt, WE7U <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Downloading/compiling/installing libraries under Xastir's control opens up way too many additional problems. I'm pretty sure we don't want to go there. I don't think either Xastir or the "compiling utilities" need to be modified. I'm thinki

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, John Ronan wrote: > Maybe with a 'Suggested Minimum', 'For the adventurous', 'Developer' > tags/headings or something? How about something like this? --- xastir 1.9.1 has been configured to use the following

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Steve Friis wrote: > I understand. Maybe the first prerequisite could be that wget function. > Then have configure fetch and install those libraries that are needed. > Might even be useful to have configure pause for Q&A for extra > libraries? If there was, say 10 second pause

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Steve Friis
As far as including libraries in the main distribution, we peridocially have "discussions" about this. I had to fight hard to get Shapelib added. Generally it's not a good idea to add libraries in this manner, as then we have more maintenance trying to keep up with their releases and updating

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Steve Friis wrote: > I think it is that newbee's don't understand what they really need. > Since getting maps to be viewable requires different libraries to be > installed, many of us think they should just install everything just in > case. When I first tried to use Xastir, I

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Lee Bengston
On 7/6/07, Curt, WE7U <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, John Ronan wrote: > > Just curious, is it the general perception that _everything_ listed > > above that line is needed in order to run, or is it just > > overachievers (like me) that feel the need to see a positive > > indica

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Steve Friis
Building with AX25 . : yes Building with Festival . : yes Building with GPSMan ... : yes Building with GraphicsMagick/ImageMagick ... : GraphicsMagick Building with libproj ...

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread John Ronan
On 6 Jul 2007, at 14:30, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, John Ronan wrote: Just curious, is it the general perception that _everything_ listed above that line is needed in order to run, or is it just overachievers (like me) that feel the need to see a positive indication for every optio

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, John Ronan wrote: > > Just curious, is it the general perception that _everything_ listed > > above that line is needed in order to run, or is it just > > overachievers (like me) that feel the need to see a positive > > indication for every option? > A bit of both methinks. I

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread John Ronan
Just curious, is it the general perception that _everything_ listed above that line is needed in order to run, or is it just overachievers (like me) that feel the need to see a positive indication for every option? A bit of both methinks. I think the perception is that if all the lines don't s

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Lee Bengston wrote: > One key was pointing the package manager, YaST, toward the right > repositories. I just did YaST searches on all the pertinent packages such > as GraphicsMagick, pcre, Berkeley, etc. and managed to find them all. > > I never could have done it without the

[Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-05 Thread Lee Bengston
Hi all, I hit paydirt on a CVS installation for openSUSE 10.2. I'll have to do a HowTo on this - one thing I liked about openSUSE vs. Ubuntu was not needing to edit or use the get-maptools script. One key was pointing the package manager, YaST, toward the right repositories. I just did YaST sea