Re: New XEphem 4.0.2 release
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Thanks Emilio, that info will be very helpfull! ? Greetings from M¨¦rida, Yucat¨¢n, M¨¦xico Running Xephem on FreeBSD 12.2 Eric De La Cruz Lugo.
On Tuesday, July 6, 2021, 12:13:05 PM CDT, Emilio Ortiz Linux <emilioortizlinux@...> wrote:
Hello everybody,
First of all I would like to thank Brandon and Mathias for all the great work done with xephem. I compiled it on Debian 10 with no issues and installed the rpm file Mathias built, on my Fedora 34 VM without any problems. After Mathias announced the AppImage, I downloaded it on my Debian 10, but before I deleted the previous one I compiled, and deleted resources and the XEphem file to give a clean try to the AppImage. It got running but with the same issues that Woei Mun described. The program did not find the resources, so I recreated the resources folder and the XEphem file and the xephem AppImage got running without problems.
Regards, Emilio
On Jun 24, 2021, at 10:46 AM, Brandon Rhodes < brandon@...> wrote:
I¡¯ve now returned from some early Summer travel and have finished giving a talk that I¡¯d promised to give at a recent (remote) conference. Now that I¡¯ll be online for the rest of the summer and able to respond to any breakages I cause, I¡¯ve been emboldened to try my hand at an XEphem release from the GitHub source repository. Thanks to all of you who have been sharing the tweaks and fixes that have gotten XEphem working for you locally, in particular removing the old -lXp compile flag and (for Linux users) switching away from the old Motif library bundled with XEphem¡¯s source code so that XEphem can use your distribution¡¯s own up-to-date Motif library compiled against its own X libraries. I can confirm that XEphem 4.0.2 builds and runs just fine on Ubuntu versions from the old 14.04 all the way up to the current 21.04, with two simple commands:
sudo apt install build-essential groff-base libmotif-dev libxext-dev libxmu-dev libxt-dev
make
A few questions for the list.
Are there any Debian package maintainers among us? With its new license, XEphem can now qualify to be an official Debian and Ubuntu package for people to effortlessly apt install, but I would rather not go through all the steps to become a Debian maintainer myself as I have quite a few projects ongoing already. I will be happy for the install instructions to expand to cover all UNIX-like operating systems, though I only use Ubuntu myself. If you know of anything that should be added to and (which currently focus only on Debian/Ubuntu and MacOS), let me know and I will be happy to update them. At least some MacOS users when they try compiling and running XEphem. I?do have an old Mac laptop here in the house, but might not have time this summer to try compiling and installing XEphem on it. If anyone knows how to resolve the various issues that have been reported, I¡¯ll be happy to update the repository with any fixes. I¡¯m not familiar enough with the MacOS ecosystem to know whether, for example, something like brew might provide the Motif libraries, or whether an XEphem recipe could be added to brew to make installing XEphem automatic for its users.
Thanks again to everyone for the helpful recent discussions. Hopefully we¡¯ll soon have XEphem running without snags for everyone who tries it on a modern operating system!
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