[OSM-dev] Mapnik on Debian Sarge?

[Artem Pavlenko]

Nick,

It is also possible to build required boost libraries from source. I do 
it all the time. If g++ on Debian Sarge is up for the job then you'll be 
fine.

Regard,
Artem

Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 03:29:06PM +0000, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
>   
>> Anyone managed to get Mapnik installed on Debian Sarge?
>> I'm thinking of doing a custom Mapnik render for Freemap whch would be 
>> rendered in a style similar to OS Landranger/Explorer, showing contours 
>> derived from SRTM, but my Bytemark VM is running sarge.
>>     
>
> "Can't be done" -- you'll need to install libboost 1.33 to run mapnik
> out of SVN, which isn't in sarge. It also doesn't compile cleanly for me
> even after that -- see my previous email on adding -pthreads to the
> scons setup -- but that might just be me.
>
> If you can install libboost 1.33 libs, it should work. That's all I
> remember having to do. 
>
> Regards,
>