[Ham-Mac] Re: [Xastir] DarwinPorts and Map Caching

[Bob Nielsen]

On Mar 31, 2006, at 6:43 PM, Corby Krick wrote:

> Due to the Mac OS X Binary being an older version, I decided to try a
> DarwinPorts version of Xastir. Darwin Ports is a ports system that
> can be used in Mac OS X; this automatically chases dependencies.
> Xastir works beautifully, but... map caching isn't working. DB4 is
> installed, but I don't get the "Map Now Cached" message I do in other
> installs. If I'm away from the internet and start up Xastir, my
> screen shows no maps since my maps are coming in from the internet.
> This tells me map caching definitely isn't working. What should I
> look at doing?
>
> http://xastir.darwinports.com/
>

(I am cc:ing this to the ham-mac list in case anyone there might have  
an insight into the caching problem).

I finally got the DarwinPort of Xastir version 1.8.0 installed  
(thanks Corby for the hints).  It took an hour or so on my Mac Mini  
since all the required libs are downloaded and compiled in addition  
to Xastir itself.   Other than a checksum problem with giflib (thanks  
Corby for helping me with this), the process was automatic:

"sudo port install xastir"

Of course this limits one's ability to customize the configuration,  
but I suspect that could be tweaked a bit if I dig into DarwinPorts a  
bit.

DB4 is installed and active but I am not seeing any map caching  
either.  Otherwise it looks fine.  My thanks to whoever added Xastir  
to the DarwinPorts archive.

73,
Bob, N7XY