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

[John Stowers]

On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 00:00 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen 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.

These have all been applied. Thanks.

John