Re: Compiling FBB

[David Ranch <linux-hams@trinnet.net>]

Hello Bernard, Ralf, Thomas,

I've been meaning to ask this question for a while now:  Do you know why 
the official version of the ax25 apps/libs/tools hasn't been updated in 
ages?  I've been slowly hacking up the legacy "released" versions to 
work around bugs I've found in my personal uses and I'm sure there are 
other issues I haven't hit.. yet:

nrattach.c - non-incrementing nr interfaces (netrom)
http://marc.info/?l=linux-hams&m=125646640011531&w=2

axipd/kiss.c - control byte non-zero when used for axudp tunnels
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606338


It seems that many of these issues are resolved in the official CVS but 
maybe other issues as you pointed out in that Google URL aren't.   It 
would be nice if we could at least get  the current CVS pushed out as 
say a new official version of 0.0.13 and be aligned across all three 
packages.   Even better, have this 0.0.13 version integrate the fixes in 
the Google repo too?

--David



Bernard, f6bvp wrote:
> Hello Miroslav,
>
> I now understand the libax25 issue.
> Debian and alike libax25 packages are installing AX.25 libraries into 
> /usr/lib/ whereas by default xfbb link process is expecting libax25.* 
> in /usr/local/lib directory.
>
> You will certainly know how to edit Makefile in order to tell it where 
> to find the libraries.
>
> I must say that for many reasons I do prefere to get all hamradio 
> applications and libraries in /usr/local subdirectories.
> This is more convenient for backups and file search.
>
> Last remark : there have been some updates and bug removals in the 
> "unofficial" libax25, tools and apps that I gave you as compared to 
> the "old one" you are using (libax25 > 0.0.11-6.1).
>
> This is the result of an intensive work performed by Lee VE7FET with 
> FPAC development team. The site I gave you the address has Debian / 
> Ubuntu compatible packages. You should consider using them. This will 
> not break anything in your application but rather remove some failure 
> causes.
>
>
> 73 de Bernard, f6bvp
>
>
>
> Le 15/10/2011 00:10, Miroslav Skoric a écrit :
>> On 10/11/2011 10:18 AM, f6bvp wrote:
>>> *Hello Miroslav,
>>>
>>> It looks like you did not install AX.25 libraries (libax25) before
>>> installing FBB.
>>> Look at the following link :
>>>
>>> http://code.google.com/p/linuxax25/
>>>
>>> 73 de Bernard, f6bvp
>>>
>>
>> Hi Bernard,
>>
>> I already had libax25 (as well as ax25-apps and ax25-tools) before
>> trying to compile FBB. Btw, in respect to repositories of Ubuntu and
>> Debian communities, I installed the version they both provided: libax25
>> 0.0.11-6.1)
>>
>> However, I checked the link above, but not sure what their versions
>> might help me in regard to the FBB compiling issue. In fact, I would
>> like to keep the existing ax25 stuff, provided they bring basic
>> functionality (for example, I managed to activate a few Linux nodes in
>> Ubuntu and Debian, and now I am in the process of configuring them to
>> interact with Win/BPQ32 nodes in the mixed Lin/Win dual-boot 
>> environment.)
>>
>> What else could I eventually try to install/reinstall?
>>
>> Misko, YT7MPB
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