On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 07:48:38PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On 6/2/07, Tom Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > What were the errors? You should be able to follow the "HowTo:Ubuntu 6.10 > > > and 7.04" instructions > > That is exactly what I followed. The CVS downloads went fine. [...] > directly to > the get-maptools script. I got lots of warnings but no errors on the > shaplib and > gdal portions, but I got a 404 error on the geoTiff connection.
That's odd. I just checked, and the geotiff URL that's in the get-maptools script works just fine right now. Perhaps you had a problem in your edited get-maptools.sh? > When I > configured, > I got a "YES" to everything above the dashed line except geoTiff (surprise > surprise). I was half expecting it to still work minus geoTiff, It should have. > but when I > did the > make there were several error messages, and unfortunately I didn't save the > logs, and I don't remember what the errors were. Keep 'em around next time you try, they'll probably indicate some problem other than just the missing libgeotiff. > I ended up regretting not > trying to build before doing the maptools script. (I did edit the script as > instructed prior to executing) Nod. That's one of the reasons why I put that section into the Wiki page, because it should get a working build before bothering with the source downloads of libraries. The other reason is that my own internet connection is very slow, and I needed something to do while the library sources were downloading (hi hi). > Yes, trying out VMware server has been on my list of things to do - I > especially would like more dispay adapter options. I was a bit surprised > that the HowTo VMware for Xasitr is more focused on the Player. I decided > to run with the Player first because I thought it > might be "lighter" and not slow down the guest OS as much. The performance > has been good. Well, the HowTo:VMware is sort of a hybrid of two people's efforts --- Duffy's, who first proposed using VMware as an alternative to Cygwin, and my own after I bought VMware Workstation and created a pre-built virtual machine with Xastir already installed and a full CVS checkout with all necessary libraries built. (I chose to purchase Workstation to make it easier for me to maintain the pre-built virtual machine, and because I want to be able to create lots of virtual machines for other purposes --- I think it was $300 well spent ($200 for the initial Workstation 5 purchase, and $99 for the upgrade to Workstation 6 when that came out). In Duffy's case he was trying to use only free stuff and downloaded a virtual appliance from the VMware site to build Xastir in, and in my case I was trying to produce a pre-built package that folks could just download themselves and use in the simplest software available (the player). If you want to try to document creating a virtual machine from scratch using VMware server, please go ahead and add a wiki page -- I wouldn't add it to the existing HowTo:VMware because that page is already quite long and a little confusing due to its attempt to explain two alternate approaches. To do that, though, you have to register for the wiki *and* send me, Curt and/or Chuck an email asking to be added to the wikieditors group --- right now we don't allow anyone automatic editing access to the wiki because of a serious vandalism event (scripts logging in and trashing pages). -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir