On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Alexandru Csete <oz9...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Tom Rondeau <t...@trondeau.com> wrote: >> GNU Radio: now allowing you to shoot yourself in the foot! >> >> We've identified a few versions of Boost that don't work well with GNU >> Radio, 1.46, 1.47, and 1.52. A little while ago, I updated our cmake build >> files to look for these specific versions and disable their use if found. >> >> Sadly, many distros currently ship with one of these known bad versions. >> Looking at Boost's website, 1.47 and 1.52 are by far the most downloaded >> Boost versions. So, as recommended by Johnathan, I put in a cmake command >> line option that allows you to override the version check so GNU Radio will >> build with any current Boost. >> >> To use it, just specify "-DENABLE_BAD_BOOST=True" on your cmake command >> line. By default this is False. That will allow you to build against >> anything. If this value is False, all GNU Radio components will be disabled >> if it finds one of the bad versions. (VOLK and a couple of others will still >> pass and compile since they are not affected by the problem). >> >> Just be aware that using one of these versions can cause problems. >> Specifically, it can lock up your application when shutting down a >> flowgraph. Also, many distros that ship with one of these bad versions also >> have other, good, versions that you can pretty easily switch to. >> > > Hi, > > Sorry for the late reply, but I just realized that half of my > computers running Mint 13 (based on Ubuntu 12.04) come with Boost > 1.46, yet I have had no problem building gnuradio without using > "-DENABLE_BAD_BOOST=True" > Admittedly, this distro appears to have a horrible mix of 1.46 and > 1.48, which may confuse cmake - I really have no idea which one really > is installed but I do have runtime issues on these computers. If > anybody has ideas for what we can do on Mint 13 / Ubuntu 12.04, please > let me know. > > Alex
Alex, You can see which Boost version Cmake is finding for you by looking at CMakeCache.txt in the top of the build directory. Check out the "Boost_<library>_LIBRARY" and "Boost_INCLUDE_DIR" to see which ones were found and are being used. Hopefully, it's finding the 1.48 version that's installed. Tom _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
