Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Important: New trunk dependency: GSL

[Eric Blossom]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 03:40:56PM -0400, Philip Balister wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Eric Blossom <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > I'll be adding the GNU Scientific Library (GSL) as a new dependency
> > on the trunk.  GSL is a huge numerical library that's been under
> > active development for more than 10 years:
> >
> >  http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl
> 
> I've been making progress getting GNU Radio trunk running on the OMAP3
> and now you toss this my way. Fortunately, OpenEmbedded already knows
> about gsl and it builds for the beagle.
> 
> But, I am still curious, what parts of GNU Radio use gsl?  Will it be
> possible to deply GNU Radio apps that do not need it? Or will gsl
> creep into the very core of GNU Radio?
> 
> Philip

At this instant nothing uses it.

There are some wavelet blocks and polyphase filtering coming soon that need it.
Today's msg was the advanced warning.

If this turns out to be a pain, we could probably make it optional,
but then we'd need (even more) conditional build stuff.

Eric