Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Minor problem in FC2 with audio-oss in tarballs 2.6

[Ulf Soderberg]

Eric Blossom wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 07:28:04PM -0500, Achilleas Anastasopoulos wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I built gnuradio on FC2 using the new tarballs.
> > Everything went OK, except building audio-oss.
> >
> > It seems that gcc cannot find "-lpython2.3"
> > The problem was traced to the Makefile
> > generated in the /src directory, which contains the following lines
> >
> > _audio_oss_la_LIBADD = \
> >      -lpython2.3      \
> >      -lstdc++
> >
> > I compared this Makefile with the one in audio-alsa
> > and it seems that the latter does not need this libarary.
> > I removed the line from the make file and it works fine.
> >
> > Can anyone confirm this problem/solution.
>
>
> This is a known problem with FC2.
>
> The -lpythonX.Y is required when building under windows and some other
> platforms.  We didn't think it would be a problem since most systems have it
> installed (including FC3).  For some reason FC2 only ships the .a and
> not the .so version.
>
> The right answer is to conditionalize the use of the library with some
> autoconf magic.  Stephane, care to take a shot at it ;-)
>
> This problem will show up on FC2 in all modules that use swig.


Seems to be some problem with making audio-oss even with FC3. I 
installed FC3 last night. Upgraded swig. Installed cppunit, boost etc. 
Didn't read the docs before starting the build process, so I had to 
restart it for each missing library :(

Anyway, when it came to the audio-oss part of the build process it 
failed with an error message telling me there was no Makefile.in.

/Ulf