Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Quickstart comments related to Ubunto 15.10 (out of the box)

[Martin Braun]

git should *not* be a build-essential. It is required by the Fetcher
code and should get auto-installed any time a git fetch is performed,
but git is not installed (e.g. if you add recipes).

If this is not happening, then we should fix the 'requirer' class
instead of a band-aid solution.

I'll revert this change and see what's up with the requirers.

M

On 04/12/2016 12:16 PM, Chris Kuethe wrote:
> git is now a build-essential, though it may take some time for pip to
> be updated with the latest version with this change.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Chris Kuethe <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 6:32 PM, Gregory W. Ratcliff <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Guys,
>>>
>>> Well done on the new pybombs, works mostly.
>>>
>>> I installed and tested these on a whitebox PC, VMware VM and Dell 4500 quad
>>> core laptop.
>>>
>>> All systems used the .iso image installation from a clean system (formatted
>>> partition).
>>> apt-get update
>>>
>>>
>>> ***********
>>> Minor findings:
>>>
>>> The Git is required to be installed.  Easy to fix with apt-get install git
>>
>> Thanks for the report. I've submitted a PR which adds git to the build
>> essentials.
>>
>>> Executing pybombs install gnuradio osmosdr doesn't really work.  It seems
>>> like the last item on the list is attempted to build first.
>>
>> For all of my comments below, could you post a build log someplace
>> illustrating the problem, as I have not seen these behaviors on my
>> builds this week (also using a U15.10 host).
>>
>> I don't see what's wrong in building from the bottom up as long as
>> when I say "pybombs install gqrx"  gnuradio, uhd, airspy, rtlsdr, and
>> hackrf all build before gr-osmosdr uses them to produce a working GQRX
>> binary.
>>
>>> I executued pybombs install gnuradio as a stand alone and about an hour
>>> later I had a working gnuradio system.
>>>
>>> Then pybombs install osmosdr worked.
>>
>> There isn't any module called "osmosdr". There is "osmo-sdr" and
>> "gr-osmosdr". Are you saying that "pybombs install gr-osmosdr" failed
>> to compile? If so, that means there is a missing dependency
>> declaration that we should fix.
>>
>>> UHD worked (isn't support nice!).
>>
>> Indeed. It saves me a huge amount of time to use the PPA.
>>
>>> Its not specifically mentioned in the quickstart that a fetch is required
>>> first.
>>
>> Can't reproduce. What part required a fetch? On my systems I'm able to
>> "pybombs install ____" and everything necessary happens; apt-get, git,
>> gcc, etc. as appropriate.
>>
>>> ********
>>> Major problem
>>>
>>> I fetched and installed gr-fcdproplus
>>> Build and install worked without error.
>>> Upon execution on a test flowgraph the long time swig bug/error came back
>>> (see below the ***)
>>> Anyone remember what the fix for this was?  Its not in anything I could find
>>> on the list.
>>
>> Your error message mentions ControlPort. Could you check if
>> gr-ctrlport is installed with
>>     gnuradio-config-info --enabled-components
>>
>>> Funcube Dongle Pro+ found as: plughw:1,0
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>   File "/home/gratcliff/gnuradio/top_block.py", line 135, in <module>
>>>     main()
>>>   File "/home/gratcliff/gnuradio/top_block.py", line 123, in main
>>>     tb = top_block_cls()
>>>   File "/home/gratcliff/gnuradio/top_block.py", line 75, in __init__
>>>     self.fcdproplus_fcdproplus_0 = fcdproplus.fcdproplus("",1)
>>>   File
>>> "/home/gratcliff/gnuradio/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fcdproplus/fcdproplus_swig.py",
>>> line 105, in make
>>>     return _fcdproplus_swig.fcdproplus_make(device_name, unit)
>>> RuntimeError: FunCube Dongle  V2.0 soundcard found but not controlpart.
>>>
>>>>>> Done (return code 1)
>>> ^CTraceback (most recent call last):
>>>   File "/home/gratcliff/gnuradio/bin/gnuradio-companion", line 130, in
>>> <module>
>>>     main()
>>>   File "/home/gratcliff/gnuradio/bin/gnuradio-companion", line 126, in main
>>>     ActionHandler(args, Platform())
>>>   File
>>> "/home/gratcliff/gnuradio/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gnuradio/grc/gui/ActionHandler.py",
>>> line 78, in __init__
>>>     gtk.main()
>>>
>>> Next steps move on to Hermes, dump 1090 and a few others I have built from.
>>>
>>> Greg
>>> nz8r
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> --
>> GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too?
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