Some questions on our ubuntu installation instructions

GNU Radio
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  1. Ubuntu Karmic includes automake 1.11, but in the install
    instructions we ask for automake1.9. Is there a reason for this? GNU
    Radio configures and builds fine here with automake 1.11
  2. There’s no sdcc-nf in Karmic, because the new version if GPL3, so
    it’s back in main. Why is there the note “*Package sdcc-nf is no
    longer part of Ubuntu, this will not allow you to build everything
    *”???
  3. Since we’ve moved development from subversion to git, should we
    remove subversion from the “required packages”? (Now we ask for both
    subversion and git-core)
  4. Do we actually need guile-1.8-dev? I have guile-1.8 and everything
    seems fine…

In all the above, I am referring to Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 and to the
master git tree of GNU Radio.

If you agree on this, I will change the page
http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/UbuntuInstall
Thanks

Dimitris S.
“If you think you’re too small to make a difference, try sleeping with
a mosquito!” - Amnesty International

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Dimitris S. wrote:

  1. Ubuntu Karmic includes automake 1.11, but in the install
    instructions we ask for automake1.9. Is there a reason for this? GNU
    Radio configures and builds fine here with automake 1.11

works fine here as well, i bet this was a copy-paste oversight. It
should just be “automake” and let the meta package figure this out.

  1. There’s no sdcc-nf in Karmic, because the new version if GPL3, so
    it’s back in main. Why is there the note “*Package sdcc-nf is no
    longer part of Ubuntu, this will not allow you to build everything
    *”???

Its needed for usrp. Is there a special non-free ubuntu repository for
this? Otherwise, we may have to have a link to the debian package
download Debian -- Error

  1. Since we’ve moved development from subversion to git, should we
    remove subversion from the “required packages”? (Now we ask for both
    subversion and git-core)

I believe that we have release tags still in subversion. Until that
changes, we should keep subversion there.

  1. Do we actually need guile-1.8-dev? I have guile-1.8 and everything
    seems fine…

idk

In all the above, I am referring to Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 and to the
master git tree of GNU Radio.

If you agree on this, I will change the page
http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/UbuntuInstall
Thanks

Please do.

Thanks,
-Josh

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Josh B. wrote:

  1. There’s no sdcc-nf in Karmic, because the new version if GPL3, so
    it’s back in main. Why is there the note “*Package sdcc-nf is no
    longer part of Ubuntu, this will not allow you to build everything
    *”???

Its needed for usrp. Is there a special non-free ubuntu repository for
this? Otherwise, we may have to have a link to the debian package
download Debian -- Error

Strange - I didn’t notice this as my machine is an upgrade from 9.04,
but sdcc-nf is indeed not in karmic. Apparently with v 2.9.0+ sdcc is
back together in the main repository, so we no longer require the
non-free package. I suppose the only way to be sure about that is to
try…
Doug

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Douglas G.
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U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Washington, DC 20375
(202) 767-9048
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Yes, that’s what I meant about sdcc-nf:
Jaunty had sdcc 2.8.0 which was divided into sdcc and sdcc-nf (non-free)
Karmic has the new sdcc 2.9.0, which is re-licensed under GPL3, so
there’s no -nf part

Updated the automake and sdcc issues on the wiki, left the subversion
and guile as is…

Dimitris S.
“If you think you’re too small to make a difference, try sleeping with
a mosquito!” - Amnesty International