Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem installing GR via pybombs on fresh load

[Martin Braun]

Like you say, people shouldn't be installing Swig by hand. It should
just work.

Now, why isn't it working? That would be great to know. It helps if you
guysers could post logs from the installs, preferably with -vv verbosity.

How do I test this stuff? PyBOMBS has some Docker-based testing built
into the repo. For most distros, this'll spin up the appropriate Docker,
and then install everything from scratch. I know it installs SWIG then.
The problem is, when people run on their own desktop, there might be all
kinds of settings and configurations going on.

For those specific, situations, we need more and better bug reports.
Obviously, suggestions for fixes (and actual fixes) are also important.
So, please submit those whenever stuff fails.

Thanks,
Martin

On 02/08/2017 06:52 AM, Garver, Paul W wrote:
> Well, since SWIG just wraps the C++ API into Python, it isn’t really 
> required. The bigger issue to me is essentially a pybombs feature request. It 
> would be nice if you could clearly see which GR modules are enabled/disabled, 
> or force Pybombs to quit if certain dependencies aren’t met to build a 
> particular module.
> 
> This happens all the time in SDR builds since people need many different 
> configurations. The user should be able to specify required GR modules in the 
> recipe somehow, or at least have a verbose information statement about that 
> module not having dependencies met.
> 
> PWG
>> On Feb 8, 2017, at 9:36 AM, Jason Matusiak <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> I can verify that the one guy was using 14.04.  The other guy also was 
>> mucking with 16.04 and got it working, but I can't say with 100% that he 
>> didn't install other packages while fuming at pybombs.
>>
>> I can see saying that it is a pybombs issue, but you say that swig it is a 
>> pre-req, that would be fine.  On the other hand, it is a little odd that 
>> pybombs is willing to say that everything installed fine when it obviously 
>> didn't.
>>
>> On 02/08/2017 09:02 AM, Garver, Paul W wrote:
>>> I just saw this too a few days ago on Ubuntu (14.04/15.04, can’t remember). 
>>> It appears to me that although GR builds, it builds without any Python 
>>> support because SWIG isn’t found / installed. I don’t think this is a 
>>> documentation issue - it’s a Pybombs issue.
>>>
>>> PWG
>>>
>>>> On Feb 8, 2017, at 8:52 AM, Jason Matusiak <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Two different coworkers recently mentioned to me that on fresh Ubuntu 
>>>> machines, they were having trouble getting GR to install via pybombs.  It 
>>>> was the case (which I've seen before) where it acts like it installed, but 
>>>> source setup_env.sh doesn't source the gnuradio-companion binary.  If you 
>>>> run the binary directly, a window pops up complaining about Python paths.
>>>>
>>>> The fix for both of them seemed to be wiping everything out and installing 
>>>> swig (one of them figured this out by installing with the -vv option and 
>>>> looking at the output).  Then when they installed GR everything seemed to 
>>>> be happy.
>>>>
>>>> So i just wanted to mention that you may need to add that to your 
>>>> requirements in your documentation.