# Attempting gnuradio build on PCLinuxOS64 - fails **URL:** \ **Category:** GNU Radio\ **Created:** [June 14, 2015, 12:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/attempting-gnuradio-build-on-pclinuxos64-fails/242308 "2015-06-14T12:31:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![musicdenotation](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@musicdenotation](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/musicdenotation)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2015, 12:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/attempting-gnuradio-build-on-pclinuxos64-fails/242308/1 "2015-06-14T12:31:48Z")
This is my first posting to the mailing list, my apology for it being a bit on the long side and yet perhaps short of vital information. Despite the length my understanding is that for somebody with more experience than I will have no trouble just skimming through and pick up some vital clues that is lost on me. Compiling is not my strong side and I am a beginner as far as details on getting gnuradio working to any extent. The distrobution does have a gnuradio-3.6.4 available and I have practiced getting to know gnuradio companion. I got interested in a more ambitious attempt to get gqrx running and figured that a ‘pybombs’ instance would be worth trying, the attraction of the recipes was to enticing. I realised eventually that ‘pybombs’ has troubles of sorts when using it in PCLinuxOS. From what I can see the process runs but and eventually returns to command prompt after what I have figured, installed 3 and a bit programs. The configurations stage I believe I survived by choosing almost default, exept I have selected from: src only because of using “another” linux than the ones ‘pybombs’ are built on?? Then the following happens: [gert@KDE64-tecra-A11 pybombs]$ ./pybombs install gnuradio Settled on prefix: /home/gert/gr-sandbox/target Initializing environmental variables… no existing inventory found, creating an empty one… value updated False None Loading recipes … /home/gert/gr-sandbox/target Installing packages: - make - python - libbzip - boost - fftw - cppunit - swig - gsl - libusb - numpy - uhd - alsa - glib - libtiff - libpng - libjpeg - gdk-pixbuf - atk - freetype - fontconfig - pixman - x11 - cairo - pango - gtk2 - wxpython - pygobject - pygtk - pycairo - sip - qt4 - pyqt4 - qwt5 - pyqwt5 - gnuradio I have only shown this section which raises questions in my mind that perhaps I don’t understand what is happening. 1… From above I understand that I have set up my ‘sandbox’ from the ‘sandbox’ calling for gnuradio to be installed. As the process gets under way I am given a bonus in the form of the ‘recipes’ being installed, saving me the step to load them later. 2… A considerable list of programs that will be installed. The first 3 programs are installed, I have seen them in the ‘sandbox’ instance again and again (have tried quite a number of variations such as deb,src and rpm,src (as for some other non gr programs I have had success). The fourth program ‘boost’ seems to get under way but then program returns to command program with no error messages. As follows: * * * Installing from source: boost –2015-06-10 19:14:52– [http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.53.0/boost\_1\_53\_0.tar.bz2](http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.53.0/boost_1_53_0.tar.bz2) Resolving [downloads.sourceforge.net](http://downloads.sourceforge.net) ([downloads.sourceforge.net](http://downloads.sourceforge.net))… 216.34.181.59 Connecting to [downloads.sourceforge.net](http://downloads.sourceforge.net) ([downloads.sourceforge.net](http://downloads.sourceforge.net))|216.34.181.59|:80… connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 302 Found Location: [http://internode.dl.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.53.0/boost\_1\_53\_0.tar.bz2](http://internode.dl.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.53.0/boost_1_53_0.tar.bz2) [following] –2015-06-10 19:14:52– [http://internode.dl.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.53.0/boost\_1\_53\_0.tar.bz2](http://internode.dl.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.53.0/boost_1_53_0.tar.bz2) Resolving [internode.dl.sourceforge.net](http://internode.dl.sourceforge.net) ([internode.dl.sourceforge.net](http://internode.dl.sourceforge.net))… 150.101.135.12 Connecting to [internode.dl.sourceforge.net](http://internode.dl.sourceforge.net) ([internode.dl.sourceforge.net](http://internode.dl.sourceforge.net))|150.101.135.12|:80… connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK Length: 55765258 (53M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: ‘boost\_1\_53\_0.tar.bz2’ boost\_1\_53\_0.tar.bz2 100%[======================================================\>] 53.18M 253KB/s in 3m 36s 2015-06-10 19:18:29 (252 KB/s) - ‘boost\_1\_53\_0.tar.bz2’ saved [55765258/55765258] Extract boost\_1\_53\_0.tar.bz2 ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/home/gert/gr-sandbox/target –libdir=/home/gert/gr-sandbox/target/lib/ Configuring: (100%) [==========================================================] ./bjam --threading=multi --layout=tagged link=shared -j4 install Installing: (100%) [===========================================================] [gert@KDE64-tecra-A11 pybombs]$