On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:46:56AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > 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.
Not entirely true. The configure options are stored in config.log and config.status, and if you simply do a "make" when configure has changed, configure will be rerun with the same options you used last time. Or you can cut/paste from the comment line of config.log that captures the line that you used last time. Or you can do what I do: keep a file in your build directory called "reconfigure" and then run ". ./reconfigure" instead of remembering the options you needed to get it done. > For a pre-built VM to be distributed to others, I think I'll just > install geotiff from souce as shown in the wiki. It's very annoying that the packagers of the Ubuntu (and Debian?) geotiff package chose to place the header files in a nonstandard location. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." -- R. Bach _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
