[Xastir] Undoing get-maptools

[Tom Russo]

The easy answer to this is not to run get-maptools.sh.

We need to get rid of get-maptools.sh.  It is an ancient relic of the days
when few Linux systems provided libraries that Xastir needs, and those days
are long gone.

It tries to download and install from source several libraries that are years
out of date.

These versions are:

http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pcre/pcre-6.3.tar.gz
http://dl.maptools.org/dl/shapelib/shapelib-1.2.10.tar.gz
http://dl.maptools.org/dl/proj/proj-4.4.9.tar.gz
http://dl.maptools.org/dl/geotiff/libgeotiff/libgeotiff-1.2.3.tar.gz
http://dl.maptools.org/dl/gdal/gdal-1.3.2.tar.gz


All of these have much more recent versions in package managers.  pcre is
past version 8.37 now, shapelib is at 1.3.0, libgeotiff is 1.4.1, and gdal is 
already at version 2.0.x.  Proj is at 4.9.1 now.

All references to get-maptools.sh need to be expunged from the docs.  
Right now, telling people to run get-maptools.sh is a bum steer that
is likely to be getting them into trouble.  It is very likely that these
old versions (which are surprisingly still downloadable) are interfering
with installed versions, or requiring old dependencies that are no longer
there.


On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 08:59:35AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <curt.we7u at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> Did you look here for clues?
> 
> https://xastir.org/index.php/Installation_Notes#Debian
> 
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 8:56 AM, Eric Christensen <eric at christensenplace.us>
> wrote:
> 
> > I was using the packaged version in Debian...  uninstalled that and
> > decided to go with the development version (from source).  Now I've lost
> > ImageMagick capabilities.  *sigh*
> >
> > I continue to work...
> >
> > On 03/16/2016 10:19 AM, Curt Mills wrote:
> > > Have you tried a "make clean" and "make" "make install" for Xastir? When
> > > you switch libraries out from underneath it, you often need to recompile.
> > >
> > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 6:48 AM, Eric Christensen <
> > eric at christensenplace.us>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there an easy way to undo 'get-maptools'?  I ran it yesterday and
> > > this morning I cannot start xastir because:
> > >
> > > xastir: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgdal.so.1: undefined symbol:
> > > pj_ctx_alloc
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Eric
> > >
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