Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Failure to build GNU Radio on various Ubuntu builds

[West, Nathan]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 8:42 AM, Mark <address@hidden> wrote:

 

Hello,

 

After trying to install GNU Radio over the past few days I’ve been unsuccessful due to various failures of GNU Radio to build.

 

The latest error is as follows:-

 

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

gr-blocks/swig/CMakeFiles/blocks_swig5_swig_doc.dir/build.make:177: recipe for target 'gr-blocks/swig/blocks_swig5_doc.i' failed

make[2]: *** [gr-blocks/swig/blocks_swig5_doc.i] Error 139

CMakeFiles/Makefile2:3254: recipe for target 'gr-blocks/swig/CMakeFiles/blocks_swig5_swig_doc.dir/all' failed

make[1]: *** [gr-blocks/swig/CMakeFiles/blocks_swig5_swig_doc.dir/all] Error 2

Makefile:147: recipe for target 'all' failed

make: *** [all] Error 2

make failed

Exiting Gnu Radio build/install

 

As mentioned, this is the latest error of a  series of many other errors occurring during previous install/build attempts but which would be too numerous to mention here.

 

I’ve tried installing using Marcus’s script from the Shirley Bay server but the install fails near the end when attempting to build as mentioned above. I modified Marcus’s script at one point to get the install to run more successfully although eventually even that modification to a line in the script fails to lead to a successful overall build but it does appear to build further doing that.

 

On this occasion, I’ve tried various distro’s of Ubuntu (12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS – 32 bit and 15.04 64 bit) but none accommodate the install of GNU Radio without some error or other.

 

I feel I have installed prerequisites and so forth and prerequisites from various suggestions in the various threads on other sites discussing the install of GNU Radio on Ubuntu.

 

I should say that I’ve installed GNURadio successfully many times in the past, using 12.04 LTS and installing GNU Radio on Windows 7 and this has been great to use with my Ettus USRP B100 (using UHD) at the time. However, today, some two years later I want to use GNU Radio a lot more and hopefully write modules and develop a SDR UI for my Ettus device but I don’t appear to be having any success at the GNU Radio install which is frustrating.

 

I’ve used so much time up trying to overcome the various issues, I’m now turning to ask for help as I feel I’ve exhausted every approach I can try with my present knowledge level.

 

All help and guidance is very much appreciated and many thanks in advance.

 

Mark.

 

 

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Two comments, it's hard to provide any assistance with this since you don't include any logs so we don't know what the exact problem is.

However, I suggest you just use the gnuradio that comes packaged in the latest ubuntu. 'apt-get install gnuradio'. If you insist on a source build then I always like to do at least a apt-get build-dep gnuradio on fresh OS installs. (but it's worth asking yourself if you really need the source build, especially since it's causing so much grief)