# New version of build-gnuradio **URL:** \ **Category:** GNU Radio\ **Created:** [November 25, 2011, 2:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-version-of-build-gnuradio/214224 "2011-11-25T02:19:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luislavena)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 2:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-version-of-build-gnuradio/214224/1 "2011-11-25T02:19:03Z")
Includes two new options: -ut and -gt Which arranges to build particular GIT tags, rather than whatever is at HEAD. – Marcus L. Principal Investigator Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium > **[Live Draw HK Tercepat | Result HK | HK Pools | Live HK | HK Prize Hari Ini](https://www.sbrac.org/)** > > Temukan live draw hk tercepat melalui halaman hk pools yang resmi dan dapatkan result hk prize melalui live hk secara langsung di situs kami. ---
**Author:** ![Marcus\_DSLeech](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/74df32/32.png) [@Marcus\_DSLeech](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Marcus_DSLeech)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 4:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-version-of-build-gnuradio/214224/2 "2011-11-26T04:22:31Z")
Hi Marcus, is there a handy release note that matches this new version of “build-gnuradio” script? If we had an previous installation on our system (say: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS or 11.xx) are there any prerequisite steps that we have/should to do before adopting this script - or, should we only use the new script for fresh installations from now on? I did notice a small issue, but probably over the next few months this can be worked out: There are several key locations for the files that GNU Radio, UHD, others install in a single system: Documentation UHD binaries GNU radio binaries GNU Radio XML scripts GNU Radio python scripts Etc. Etc. Given the increased trend to adopt GNU radio as both development and production systems, is there a possibility that we may have to adopt/or need to confirm adoption of a particular file system / repository / documentation/ directory standard? See [http://garrett.damore.org/fsstnd/fsstnd.html](http://garrett.damore.org/fsstnd/fsstnd.html) for a historical perspective that is not always found in custom distributions such as Ubuntu. For many of you, using Sun workstations, you also know the importance of using the /opt tree for all custom package installs. Marcus, thank you for your hard work. I actually have a relatively simple addon to your script in alpha testing, that uses the dialog [Dialog: An Introductory Tutorial | Linux Journal](http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2807) package (a modern version) to give a user-friendly list of all available “tags” that can be chosen, and then present that chosen set to the next installation module for installation. Obviously I haven’t yet fully integrated it, but if you allow, I could share it with you at a later date - as an option to allow the user to choose from the various interim releases easily. Let me know if you are interested, and if anyone has any issues with the Linux: Dialog utility, please let me know as well. Is this now universally available on various OSes? Alternatively, I could use plain old BASH to provide a less than pretty user interface. Comments welcome. Samudra ---
**Author:** ![Marcus\_DSLeech](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/74df32/32.png) [@Marcus\_DSLeech](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Marcus_DSLeech)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-version-of-build-gnuradio/214224/3 "2011-11-26T18:18:23Z")
> Hi Marcus, is there a handy release note that matches this new version of > “build-gnuradio” script? If we had an previous installation on our system > (say: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS or 11.xx) are there any prerequisite steps that we > have/should to do before adopting this script - or, should we only use the > new script for fresh installations from now on? > I originally designed it for fresh installations. It isn’t really > designed as an ongoing-maint > tool. For that, there’s “git pull/make/sudo make install”. I don’t make release notes for it. My life is quite full-enough as it is. > Etc. > > Given the increased trend to adopt GNU radio as both development and > production systems, is there a possibility that we may have to adopt/or need > to confirm adoption of a particular file system / repository / > documentation/ directory standard? See > [http://garrett.damore.org/fsstnd/fsstnd.html](http://garrett.damore.org/fsstnd/fsstnd.html) for a historical perspective > that is not always found in custom distributions such as Ubuntu. For many of > you, using Sun workstations, you also know the importance of using the /opt > tree for all custom package installs. > The script is designed for Ubuntu/Fedora and follows the filesystem > layout of those > systems. Presumably, if it’s ever extended for other Linux > distributions, and other > \*nix flavours, it will follow, as required, the filesystem layout > conventions of those > systems. > I could use plain old BASH to provide a less than pretty user interface. > Comments welcome. > > Samudra > > - I wonder, out loud, how “user friendly” we have to make a system that is primarily intended for an audience that could loosely be termed “engineers”. Gnu Radio + UHD are not, primarily, an “end application”, but rather a development environment for developing applications. It rather assumes that you have some reasonable competence in software development, RF engineering, digital signal processing, and basic system-administration. It isn’t intended to provide a big blue “make my PhD come out” button, or a “turn-key method for rendering EM waves into instant cash”. If a script like ‘build-gnuradio’ is too complicated for a user to use, then I wonder about the probability that said user will have any success once Gnu Radio is installed. The other possible argument is that build-gnuradio _already_ “dumbs things down”, so why not go all the way? – Marcus L. Principal Investigator Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium > **[Live Draw HK Tercepat | Result HK | HK Pools | Live HK | HK Prize Hari Ini](https://www.sbrac.org)** > > Temukan live draw hk tercepat melalui halaman hk pools yang resmi dan dapatkan result hk prize melalui live hk secara langsung di situs kami. ---
**Author:** ![Marcus\_DSLeech](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/74df32/32.png) [@Marcus\_DSLeech](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Marcus_DSLeech)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 3:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-version-of-build-gnuradio/214224/4 "2012-07-12T15:17:28Z")
Hi Marcus, How to give the tag name here, i’m so confused about this. ./build-gnuradio -ut release\_003\_002\_003 is this the correct way ?? Thanks & Regards Sreenath Kambala