Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] (no subject)

[Eric Blossom]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 02:41:07PM +0100, Markus Feldmann wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> i think there is an misconfiguration in the swig package ?!
> I did the following:
> /configure --enable-gr-wxgui --enable-grc --enable-usrp --enable-gr-usrp
> --enable-gr-audio-alsa --enable-gnuradio-examples --enable-gnuradio-core
> --enable-gr-audio-oss --prefix=/usr
> make
> checkinstall    (like make install)
> 
> and got the error:
> test -z "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gnuradio/gr" || /bin/mkdir -p
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gnuradio/gr"
>  /bin/sh ../../../../libtool   --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c
> '_gnuradio_swig_py_runtime.la'
> '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gnuradio/gr/_gnuradio_swig_py_runtime.la'
> libtool: install: error: cannot install `_gnuradio_swig_py_runtime.la'
> to a directory not ending in
> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gnuradio/gr
> 
> when i change the --prefix=/usr to --prefix=/usr/local then i get
> problems, like can not find lib ...
> 
> I think on Suse 11 i need the --prefix=/usr ?

/usr/local should work fine.

> Any Idea ?

I've never tried checkinstall.  Please try:

  (make && make check && sudo make install) 2>&1 | tee make.log



> Is there a relative stable version which includes companion ?
> 
> If i install the stable releases, do i need only the
> <gnuradio-3.1.3.tar.gz>

only gnuradio-3.1.3.tar.gz

> or also the
> <gnuradio-core-2.8.tar.gz>
> and so on ?
> 
> I got the sources from the svn, Thursday last week.

Should be fine, though I think we may have a problem with Python 2.6.
It's on the list of things to check.  I believe it does build OK, but
fails at runtime with some kind of recursive lookup failure, possibly
due to changes in how import paths are handled.

Eric