On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Tom Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Thanks - did not realize the options were stored in separate files. > 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. I like that. >> 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. Yes, I've seen exactly the same thing in Mepis and DreamLinux, which are Debian based. There's a gdal binary available as well (for the newer versions of Ubuntu, Mepis, and DreamLinux), which I have not tried yet. Lee - K5DAT _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
