Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] mblock linking error

[Robert McGwier]

This problem is understood.   There is a change in libtool in the 
Debian/Ubuntu community.  I believed this was fixed here by finding out 
some shell changes but it is not.

If you cannot build mblock,   you need to install pmt,  which alway 
builds first.  Go into the pmt directory and make install or sudo make 
install depending on your situation.


Then when you go back to the base directory and do make,  the mblock 
(and the rest of the)  make will complete quickly.

There are a couple of really aggravating things in Ubuntu 6.1 (maybe 
earlier) and libtool and link of sh to dash are at the top of my list.   
I could not understand what in the world was going on with these shells 
which had


#!/bin/sh

at the top from IBM for the Cell SDK (for example), and others,  not 
working and really bombing badly.   Ubuntu has placed /bin/dash,  their 
step towards a posix compliant sh,  in the symbolic link.   Shell script 
authors have used sh in their scripts when they probably wanted the bash 
extensions and should have used bash.  It is still a bit ugly to drop 
this on us without warning and to break so many shell scripts in the 
process.

Bob



Johnathan Corgan wrote:
> Josh Blum wrote:
>
>   
> > The same problem occurs on cygwin. I know cygwin is a lower priority,
> > but the issue may not be ubuntu specific. -josh
> >
> > Roshan Baliga wrote:
> >     
> > > I've run into the same problem on Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) at trunk
> > > rev 4662 (current). The trunk tree built fine for me on the same box a
> > > month ago. (I already tried make distclean and bootstrap.)
> > >       
>
> Could you gentlemen please update and retry?
>
>   


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