[ gpsdrive ] svn insall questions

[Andreas Putzo]

Hi,

On Sep 17  23:56, Hamish wrote:
> I started to collect some of the ideas from this thread on the wiki site,
>   http://gpsdrive.wiki.sourceforge.net/Installing

Great :)

> As I do not intend to use any of the DB stuff (or Mapnik for that matter),
> it would be great to use whatever cmake uses for './configure --without-'
> to skip OSM stuff and survive with simple sqlite for DB needs.

I did not try it, but in DefineOptions.cmake there is a switch whether
you want to build with or without mapnik support. 
cmake -DWITH_MAPNIK=OFF .. might do the trick.
> 
> (I don't want to run both PostgreSQL and MySQL on the embedded system,
> the hard drive is just a compact flash card and the processor is minimal)
> 
> Running all three DBs seems nuts. I understand the need for Postgre for
> OSM, but can anyone comment on the status of MySQL vs Sqlite3? I hadn't
> really been following the DB developments, but my hope was that sqlite
> would replace mysql for the program's needs. (??)

I thought mysql support has already been dropped in favour of sqlite3 
since gpsdrive 2.10pre5.


regards,
Andreas