[FOSS-GPS] patches for osm-gps-map nits (was: FoxtrotGPS Mapping Library)

[John Stowers]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
<rozzin at geekspace.com>wrote:

> Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin at geekspace.com> writes:
> >
> > So, it looks like osm-gps-map would mostly be a pretty good fit to
> > FoxtrotGPS.
> >
> > There are a few things that initially scared me but have turned out to
> > be non-issues and a few minor nits for which I'm preparing some patches
> > foryour review, but also a couple of other items that are still bothering
> me
> > and for which I don't have a solution on-hand.
>
> ... and the nits are, which patches attached at the end...:
>
>    * The pkg-config probes for GLib and Cairo appear to demand
>      unnecessarily-high revisions of both packages; the versions in
>      Debian's current stable release seem to work fine (the `mapviewer'
>      demo app seems to build and work fine on my laptop).
>
>    * The way that the pkg-config probes are combined & labelled makes
>      the output from ./configure confusing (as well as the error
>      when the list of prerequisites is unsatisfied, which made me go
>      `What do you mean it failed when looking for OPENSTREETMAP_GPS_MAP!?
>       Isn't that what I'm building? Oh...').
>
>    * `./configure && make install' doesn't work in a dedicated build-tree
>      (outside of the source-tree).
>
>    * The using a funky trick with the linker where you `backdoor'
>      in past libtool, which I *think* is unnecessary and may lead
>      to problems (or at least confusion) for someone some day.
>

Excellent, I am away from my development computer for a few days, but I will
apply them when I get back.

Thanks for your work,

John


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