Different Navit builds

Sebastian Krzyszkowiak seba.dos1 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 25 17:47:31 CEST 2009


On 8/25/09, Christian Rüb <christian.rueb at gmx.net> wrote:
> KaZeR wrote:
>>
>> Christian Rüb wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > using svn r2517 $HOME/.navit/navit.xml is used by navit again, there
>> > seemed to be a bug in opk package as navit.xml in /usr/share/navit was
>> > empty, too. Also speed seems to be the same for menus etc. One more
>> > advantage of using [2]: deactivating "map follows vehicle" in menu now
>> > actually works and makes map searching usable even if GPS is on :)
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Well, as a general rule, i would say that using the most recent one
>> (especially with 200+ commits) is usually a good idea. There are indeed
>> some
>> new bugs introduced from time to time, but usually commits are done to
>> solve
>> bugs ;). And in the specific case of navit, usually when something breaks
>> it's fixed the day after (like this navit.xml path issue).
>
> That's what I did before for a long while but then switched to SHR package
> and did not get updates from svn.
> Now I am back to "original" navit packages and I am aware this can happen
> with devel versions. I was just a bit unfortunate to get a buggy version in
> the first place.
>
> But I would still be interested to build navit in a clean way for my SHR
> (i.e. using libgps17), as I have set up a build env for other apps already.
> A bitbake recipe would be appreciated.
>
> It's really a great app and with a hand crafted OSD layout also very useful
> on my FR.
>
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I'll try to build newer Navit in SHR repository.

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Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
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