Uh , one quick comment; Updates are also available for free. The best place to get concise info is likely to be the #Mandriva irc channel at irc.freenode.net .
Vy 73; Bob w9ya > Dear Eric: > > As usual, Eric, you are extremely kind and helpful; thank you. You give > me inspiration to push on! > > At 10:48 PM 10/26/2005, you wrote: >>On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 08:23:55PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > No one said which desktop to take, >> > so I picked kde. >> >>Good choice. It's one of the two distributions I use every day. FWIW >> I also use KDE. > > Glad to know that KDE is OK! > >>With Mandrake 10.1, I believe that there are only *three* things that >> didn't come with the distribution that you would have needed to build. >> Even fewer with SuSE 9.3 Pro. >> >>These would have been cppunit, FFTW and SDCC. > > Actually, I bought the Mandrake 10.1 official CDs from imageindustries > on Ebay. As you know from my previous post where you helped me, I had > to update automake, too, since mine was 1.4-p6 and yours was 1.8.5. > This was the reason for many compile failures. > >> > As an example of the various problems, fftw did not compile at the >> beginning, but after >> > several tries and stopping the use of "make distclean", I got it to >> compile. >> >>The README in gnuradio-core contains the magic required for FFTW, e.g., >> >> (2) FFTW 3.0 or later http://www.fftw.org >> >> IMPORTANT!!! When building FFTW, you MUST use the --enable-single >> and --enable-shared configure options. This builds the single >> precision floating point version which we use. You should also >> use either the --enable-3dnow or --enable-sse options if you're on >> an Athlon or Pentium respectively. > > I was using these configure options from the beginning, but since my > machine is an Athlon, I had to use a different switch (enable-k7) > instead of enable-sse. This was not hard to figure out. > >>FYI, I just confirmed that fftw-3.0.1.tar.gz builds perfectly out of >> the box. >> >> ./configure --enable-single --enable-shared --enable-sse >> make >> make install >> >> >>Out of curiosity, where did you ever get the idea that "make >>distclean" was a good idea? > > To answer your question: in frustration with the failed attempts, I > tried "make distclean" because it was listed in the README text from > fftw: > > Quoting from > http://www.fftw.org/fftw3_doc/Installation-on-Unix.html#Installation-on-Unix > > "Section 8.1: > > This will build the uniprocessor complex and real transform libraries > along with the test programs. (We recommend that you use GNU make if it > is available; on some systems it is called gmake.) The "make install" > command installs the fftw and rfftw libraries in standard places, and > typically requires root privileges (unless you specify a different > install directory with the --prefix flag to configure). You can also > type "make check" to put the FFTW test programs through their paces. If > you have problems during configuration or compilation, you may want to > run "make distclean" before trying again; this ensures that you don't > have any stale files left over from previous compilation attempts." > > Sounded good to me; but as usual, there is only one way to do it right; > many ways to screw up! > > >>Not true. Having /usr/local/bin in your PATH goes a long way. > > Duh - should have known this. > > >>Also not true. I'm using whatever came with Mandrake 10.1 and >>SuSE 9.3. A quick check shows that Mandrake 10.1 ships with 1.8.5 and >> 1.4. > > See above. Not with the Mandrake I got; perhaps buying CDs from the web > was my error. > > >>Have you tried Mandrake's graphical "Software Management" tool? > > One issue is that Mandrake is really no more anyway. If you get > "Mandrake 10.1 Official" CDs like I did, you cannot update them unless > you pay a fee to get upgrades from the new company, now called > Mandriva. Because I wanted security fixes, I did pay the fee for the > update service. However, the automatic Mandrake software updates fail > because these update programs point to the wrong URLs. I fixed this on > my own by finding a new rpm for the "rpmdrake" program, which gave me > access to the proper update site for patches to the OS. I would > suggest that you recommend to people to really buy "Mandriva 2006" or > some specific shrink-wrapped version to prevent this kind of problem. > > After this fixup of the URL for updates, the Software Management tool > works. > > >>Thanks for all of your input. And again, sorry to hear about your >> frustration. With some luck and effort I think we can address most of >> your concerns. > > I very much appreciate your patience! > > Best, Weo WN6I > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
