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
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> 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 laterhttp://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 &q
