On 11/15/08, Tom Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:42:40PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > ------snip-----
> > Fyi, I also installed the geotiff packages from the ubuntu repository > > instead of using the get-maptools script. Knowing from recent > > experience with other Debian based distros that the header files get > > installed in /usr/include/geotiff, I copied them into /usr/include > > before compiling Xastir, and it seems happy with that. > > > This is probably not best practice, as those copies will not be updated if > the package is updated. > > Better practice would be to tell configure to add /usr/include/geotiff to > the search path, which is easily done: > /path/to/configure CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/geotiff" > > Then you don't have orphaned copies of geotiff headers, and configure can > still find the ones that the package installs in the nonstandard place. > For my own use, it's probably 6 one way and half a dozen the other. If I do the configure mod, I'll lose it every time I rebuild Xastir. For a pre-built VM to be distributed to others, I think I'll just install geotiff from souce as shown in the wiki. Thanks, Lee _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
