On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Alexandru Csete <oz9...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Tom Rondeau <t...@trondeau.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Alexandru Csete <oz9...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Tom Rondeau <t...@trondeau.com> wrote: >>>> 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. >>> >>> Actually, it seems that I only have version 1.46 libraries installed, >>> see the attached file. >>> >>> This is really screwed up: I have libboost-dev installed, which >>> according to synaptic is at version 1.48.0.2. Looking in the package >>> info I see that it depends on libboost1.46-dev, which explain why all >>> my boost libs are version 1.46. The same applies to many other boost >>> packages, e.g. libboost-thread-dev. >> >> Grep CMakeCache.txt for "Boost_VERSION" and see what that returns. For >> 1.48, it'll look like 104800, and for 1.46 it should be 104600. >> >> Also see what it tells you when you grep for ENABLE_BAD_BOOST. If this >> is set to True, it will allow any version. >> >>> Cmake didn't complain about bad boost version and I can see no version >>> info in CMakeCache.txt. Gnuradio compiles and install just fine. I can >>> rerun cmake and submit the cmake files on a system with boost 1.46 if >>> needed. >> >> Maybe delete CMakeCache.txt and rerun cmake to make sure it refreshes >> everything. > > Hi Tom, > > I started with a clean build directory and after cmake finishes > without errors I get: > > oz9aec@romit ~/sdr/gnuradio/v3.6.3-146-ga54dc5ba/build $ cat > CMakeCache.txt | grep ENABLE_BAD_BOOST > ENABLE_BAD_BOOST:BOOL=OFF > oz9aec@romit ~/sdr/gnuradio/v3.6.3-146-ga54dc5ba/build $ cat > CMakeCache.txt | grep "Boost_VERSION" > Boost_VERSION:INTERNAL=104601 > > Alex
That clears it up, thanks! I read somewhere that the last two digits would always be 00, so that's all I checked for. With yours being 104601, I'll need to be more clever about it. Tom _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
