# GR\_TEST\_TARGET\_DEPS Settings?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gr-test-target-deps-settings/236271>\
**Category:** GNU Radio\
**Created:** [August 20, 2013, 1:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gr-test-target-deps-settings/236271 "2013-08-20T01:26:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![alcina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@alcina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alcina)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 1:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gr-test-target-deps-settings/236271/1 "2013-08-20T01:26:06Z")

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I recently posted a “my bad”, but it lead me to wonder why “make test”  
was failing. I had commit 64f8434d0 from 02-August-2013 installed, and  
had built commit 9be83a4d from 16-August-2013 and was executing “make  
test” from that build directory. Tests were failing because a symbol  
was missing from a library that, according to the debug output, should  
not have been being used.

So, today I spent some time playing around with GrTest.cmake and the  
settings for GR\_TEST\_TARGET\_DEPS. For this test, I deactivated -all-  
installed versions of GNU Radio. I then built (but did not install)  
9be83a4d from 16-August-2013. “make test” failed again for (almost?)  
all tests because libraries were not found. After poking around, I see  
that in the top-level CMakeLists.txt file, GR\_TEST\_TARGET\_DEPS is being  
set to “volk gnuradio-runtime”. Then, in many of the components, I find  
‘set(GR\_TEST\_TARGET\_DEPS “”)’! Which says to me that this component has  
no internal dependencies; which is not going to be the case except for  
maybe gruel or pmt. And, the cmake test shell scripts reflect this too  
(no internal dependencies).

Some of the components have actual dependencies set, e.g., gr-filter:  
‘list(APPEND GR\_TEST\_TARGET\_DEPS test-gr-filter gnuradio-filter  
gnuradio-fft)’. But, again, some of the required libraries are still  
not being found.

I believe that most of the GR\_TEST\_TARGET\_DEPS settings are not correct,  
and, further, that in the top-level setting gnuradio-pmt should be  
added.

I’m happy to hack through this and figure out what needs to set and to  
what. But, I’d prefer a sanity check from others (Linux or OSX) that  
shows that my beliefs are founded. So, can some other folks try  
-building- (not installing) GNU Radio from the latest (master or next)  
with no other GNU Radio installed, and see if “make test” works?  
Thanks! - MLD

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**Author:** ![mdeering](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/278dde/32.png) [@mdeering](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mdeering)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 1:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gr-test-target-deps-settings/236271/2 "2013-08-20T01:38:22Z")

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On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Michael D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> I’m happy to hack through this and figure out what needs to set and to  
> what. But, I’d prefer a sanity check from others (Linux or OSX) that shows  
> that my beliefs are founded. So, can some other folks try -building- (not  
> installing) GNU Radio from the latest (master or next) with no other GNU  
> Radio installed, and see if “make test” works? Thanks! - MLD

Please, feel free to modify as needed to get things working for you, so  
we  
can see the diff. However, the test script I use to validate  
maint/master/next branches before push does pass make test with no  
installed GNU Radio. This is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 and 32-bit, mostly.