# Request to add openSUSE 12.1 support to the build-gnuradio script **URL:** \ **Category:** GNU Radio\ **Created:** [September 4, 2012, 3:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/request-to-add-opensuse-12-1-support-to-the-build-gnuradio-script/222639 "2012-09-04T15:15:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@aris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aris)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2012, 3:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/request-to-add-opensuse-12-1-support-to-the-build-gnuradio-script/222639/1 "2012-09-04T15:15:04Z")
I’ve just corresponded with Marcus L. about adding support for openSUSE 12.1 in the build-gnuradio script, and he’s said “The cmake hackery might be better placed in the Cmake rules in Gnu Radio itself–using yet-another special recognizer for OpenSuse. I suggest you post to discuss-gnuradio to indicate that OpenSuse requires this rule, and perhaps someone (maybe Josh) will patch the Cmake rules appropriately.” the place to check for openSUSE 12.1 is /etc/os-release and it contains: NAME=opensuse VERSION = 12.1 (Asparagus) VERSION\_ID=“12.1” PRETTY\_NAME=“openSUSE 12.1 (Asparagus) (i586)” ID=opensuse i used the existing build-gnuradio script as an outline for building it manually. the individual steps were quite successful. here’s the key info: sudo zypper install cmake cppunit-devel doxygen fftw3-devel git gsl-devel libjack-devel libqt4-devel libqwtplot3d-devel libSDL-devel libusb-1\_0-devel orc portaudio portaudio-devel python-cheetah python-devel python-lxml python-wxGTK python-wxWidgets-devel qwt-devel wxWidgets-devel xmlto (add texlive-latex to the list above if you want all the gnuradio docs to build - latex install alone needs about 300MB of disk) To enable building \*gr-qtgui \*in addition to all the rest, you have to point cmake to the location of the qwt header files: cmake -DQWT\_INCLUDE\_DIRS=/usr/include/qwt5 …/ ---
**Author:** ![KB3CSSChris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@KB3CSSChris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/KB3CSSChris)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2012, 4:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/request-to-add-opensuse-12-1-support-to-the-build-gnuradio-script/222639/2 "2012-09-04T16:12:58Z")
On 04 Sep 2012 09:13, KB3CS - Chris wrote: > I’ve just > corresponded with Marcus L. about adding support for openSUSE 12.1 in > the build-gnuradio script, and he’s said > > “The cmake hackery might > be better placed in the Cmake rules in Gnu Radio itself–using > yet-another special recognizer for OpenSuse. I suggest you post to > discuss-gnuradio to indicate that OpenSuse requires this rule, and > perhaps someone (maybe Josh) will patch the Cmake rules > appropriately.” > > the place to check for openSUSE 12.1 is > /etc/os-release and it contains: > NAME=opensuse > VERSION = 12.1 > (Asparagus) > VERSION\_ID=“12.1” > PRETTY\_NAME=“openSUSE 12.1 (Asparagus) > (i586)” > ID=opensuse > > i used the existing build-gnuradio script as > an outline for building it manually. the individual steps were quite > successful. > > here’s the key info: > > sudo zypper install cmake > cppunit-devel doxygen fftw3-devel git gsl-devel libjack-devel > libqt4-devel libqwtplot3d-devel libSDL-devel libusb-1\_0-devel orc > portaudio portaudio-devel python-cheetah python-devel python-lxml > python-wxGTK python-wxWidgets-devel qwt-devel wxWidgets-devel xmlto > (add texlive-latex to the list above if you want all the gnuradio > docs to build - latex install alone needs about 300MB of disk) > > To > enable building GR-QTGUI in addition to all the rest, you have to point > cmake to the location of the qwt header files: cmake > -DQWT\_INCLUDE\_DIRS=/usr/include/qwt5 ../ To be clear, it’s only the cmake stuff that I’d prefer be handled in the Gnu Radio build process itself, rather than build-gnuradio special-casing it. We’ve done distribution-specific “spooge” in the Cmake files a few times, and it seems like this might be another instance of that. The pre-requisite support using zypper is no problem, and I already put that in that last. But I’m waiting on opinions about the cmake flags – whether that should be something in the gnuradio cmake files, or whether I need to special-case it in build-gnuradio. Doing it in Gnu Radio itself means that people doing manual builds will have a seamless experience. ---
**Author:** ![KB3CSSChris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@KB3CSSChris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/KB3CSSChris)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/request-to-add-opensuse-12-1-support-to-the-build-gnuradio-script/222639/3 "2012-09-04T16:17:04Z")
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:13 AM, KB3CS - Chris [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I’ve just corresponded with Marcus L. about adding support for openSUSE > 12.1 in the build-gnuradio script, and he’s said > > “The cmake hackery might be better placed in the Cmake rules in Gnu Radio > itself–using yet-another special recognizer for OpenSuse. I suggest you > post to discuss-gnuradio to indicate that OpenSuse requires this rule, and > perhaps someone (maybe Josh) will patch the Cmake rules appropriately.” Hi Chris, I’m not sure I understand what rule has to be added/changed for you? Is it just the location of the QWT header files? That’s going to be a continuous problem since they don’t produce a package config file for us to work off of. We’re basically left to chase down all possible include directories where we know it exists. Also, now that QWT 6 is out, a lot of platforms are switching to that, so if we hard code /usr/include/qwt5, that’ll just break when OpenSUSE moves to Qwt6 and we’ll have to write another rule. Any advice for how to best handle this situation is appreciated. (But getting rid of Qwt isn’t an option; it’s way too useful.) Tom