[ gpsdrive ] Re: Compiling problems, missing libraries,libxml version and missing degree, minutes decimal notation

[Oddgeir Kvien <oddgeir@oddgeirkvien.com>]

Seems like an old version of GPSDrive on my computer confused me about
the degree and minutes decimal notation.......
Sorry for this.

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 21:48 +0100, Oddgeir Kvien wrote:
> I downloaded the latest svn version today and started to prepare for
> compiling (./configure).
> 
> The first problem i got was the libxml version, my Ubuntu system (which
> is up to date) has version 2.0.26, while GPSDrive claims to need 2.0.27.
> I just made some changes to the configure file to avoid this
> problem.......
> 
> The next problem i got was when linking:
> "libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libgeos.la'"
> libgeos-dev was not installed in my system, shouldn't this be discovered
> by the configure script ?
> 
> After installing this library and making the libxml hack it compiles
> fine and seems to run fine, only Demo mode tested yet.
> 
> 
This is OK after all:
> One thing I noticed, which I do not like is that the option to display
> the position in degrees and minutes decimal is removed. This is the way
> that is normally used on mu sea maps, and it is also the way it is used
> by geocacging.com. So please get the degree and minutes decimal position
> back since that is what is used on sea maps, on land maps normally UTM
> coordinates are used, but I am not sure if we should introduce that to
> GPSDrive........ 
> (The degree and minutes decimal position was actually introduced into
> GPSDrive by me a year or two ago.)
> 

-- 
Oddgeir

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