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VIKING 0.1.0 -- Gnome GPS/mapping software!
http://viking.sourceforge.net/

Installing on FreeBSD 6.0:

Viking is supposed to run on any Unix-style OS (and even a windows binary is available). I had problems installing Viking 0.1.0 on FreeBSD 6.0, but these problems were easily solved. Here's a how-to.

1. The viking source uses malloc.h instead of stdlib.h. To fix this, cd tothe src directory (viking-0.1.0/src) , and create a small script in that directory containing the following:

for fl in *; do
mv $fl $fl.old
sed 's/stdlib.h/stdlib.h/g' $fl.old > $fl
rm -f $fl.old
done

Save this with a filename such as sr.sh in the src directory, and then type:

sh sr.sh

This script will replace malloc.h with libstd.h in the source. If you don't do this you'll get an error from gmake telling you to make the switch.

2. At this point you can follow the instructions as given (pretty much) in INSTALL, except that you must use 'gmake' instead of 'make':

gmake
cp viking /usr/local/bin # as root)
cp ../viking-remote /usr/local/bin # optional)
rehash

... and presto, now you can run viking!

Cool I will try it sometime later may tomorrow.

Thanks for sharing with us

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I am not BSD user but VIKING looks good to me. May be I will try it out on Linux