Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Minimal install of GNU Radio without GUI, etc possible?

[Cinaed Simson]

On 08/08/2016 02:19 AM, Jason McHuff wrote:
> I ended up using those (commenting out uhd, wxpython, pygtk, pycairo,
> pyqt4, pyqwt5, apache-thrift) and "sudo pubombs install gnuradio"
> results in a successful build.  I left the config_opt line alone after I
> had some errors.
> 
> My issue now is that trying to use PyBOMBS to install gr-osmosdr fails with:
> 
> ./configure: line 11567: syntax error near unexpected token `FFTW3F,'
> ./configure: line 11567: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(FFTW3F, fftw3f >= 3.2.0)'
> 
> I have verified that fftw-devel 3.3.3 and related packages and pkgconfig
> are installed, and rebuilt gnuradio after I uncommented FFTW in the
> recipe file.  I may try commenting out the offending line in the
> configure file.

There may not be pkconfig data for fft3w in /usr/lib64/pkgconfig on CentOS.

As a short term kludge, try adding these to your pkgconfig directory.

Needless to say, you'll need to change the prefix variable to point to
your installation.


> 
> On Aug 8, 2016 12:32 AM, Marcus Müller <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>     >
> 
>> We might want to have gnuradio-headless LWR at the end of the day... I
> haven't tested this, but the "depends" section should read, assuming you
> want no ALSA (linux sound infrastructure) or UHD (no USRP support), as
> well as no GNU Radio Companion:
>>
>> depends:
>> - boost
>> - fftw
>> - cppunit
>> - swig
>> - gsl
>> - cheetah
>> - numpy
>> - lxml
>> - cmake
>> - apache-thrift
>> - liblog4cpp
>> - zeromq
>> - python-zmq
>>
>> As Eric and I have extensively experienced, apache-thrift is the thing
> most likely to be a nightmare among the remaining dependencies. If you
> don't want ctrlport, you can omit that, too; currently, I'd call
> ctrlport a bit of an "advanced feature"; it has many useful features,
> however, so you might look into this later.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Marcus
>> On 08.08.2016 04:46, Eric Statzer wrote:
> 
>     >>
> 
>>> On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 9:55 PM Jason McHuff <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> 
>     >>>
> 
>>>> > I would definitely suggest using pybombs, and in order to do that you
>>>> probably need to abandon (and clean up) any of your other installation
>>>> attempts.  Alternative versions of packages lingering in your
>>>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH or PKG_CONFIG_PATH will cause bad things to happen, even
>>>> with pybombs.
>>>>
>>>> Done.  I have reinstalled the OS and now have a blank slate.  (BTW,
> it would
>>>> be nice if there was something more helpful than "PyBOMBS.recipes -
> ERROR -
>>>> Illegal recipes command: add" when git is not installed.)
>>>>
>>>> But don't I also have to remove stuff from "depends" in gnuradio.lwr
> along
>>>> with editing the "config_opt" line?  Won't PyBOMBS install all of those
>>>> regardless of how GNU Radio is to be built?  I think I'm going to go
> through
>>>> and try commenting stuff out and see how it goes.
>>>>
>>>> BTW, GNU Radio on Android is an interesting idea.  I know there's the
>>>> SDRToch app that can work with an RTL-SDR, but I haven't seen the
> ability to
>>>> do trunking or digital.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes you are correct, you'll want to prune the graphics-related
> packages in the "depends" section of gnuradio.lwr (and possibly any
> other recipes that introduce dependencies that you don't want, as well).
>>>
>>> This is probably getting ahead of things for an initial trial build,
> but if you get everything working it would be nice if you would submit a
> pull request for a gnuradio-minimal.lwr "prefix recipe".  A "prefix
> recipe" just gives you an easy way to override a bunch of configuration
> sections for multiple recipes, see gnuradio-default.lwr and
> gnuradio-stable.lwr for examples.  I'm sure you're not the only one who
> would find a minimal install useful. (myself included!)
>>>
>>> Tom Rondeau had done a bunch of stuff to get GNU Radio built and
> running under Android, you can find all of his tools/notes/examples in
> [1].  Its mostly just proof-of-concept stuff, but the potential is there.
>>>
>>> -Eric
>>>
>>> [1]  http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/Android
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio
> mailing list address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Discuss-gnuradio mailing list
> address@hidden
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
>

fftw3.pc
Description: Text document

fftw3f.pc
Description: Text document