[Discuss-gnuradio] request to add openSUSE 12.1 support to the build-gnuradio script

[KB3CS - Chris]

I've just corresponded with Marcus Leech about adding support for openSUSE 12.1 in the build-gnuradio script, and he's said

  
 "The cmake hackery might be better placed in the Cmake rules in Gnu
    Radio itself--using yet-another special recognizer for OpenSuse.  I 
suggest you post to discuss-gnuradio to indicate that OpenSuse
    requires this rule, and perhaps someone (maybe Josh) will patch the 
Cmake rules appropriately."

the place to check for openSUSE 12.1 is /etc/os-release  and it contains:
NAME=opensuse
VERSION = 12.1 (Asparagus)
VERSION_ID="12.1"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE 12.1 (Asparagus) (i586)"
ID=opensuse

i used the existing build-gnuradio script as an outline for building it manually.  the individual steps were quite successful.

here's the key info:

sudo
 zypper install cmake cppunit-devel doxygen fftw3-devel git gsl-devel 
libjack-devel libqt4-devel libqwtplot3d-devel libSDL-devel 
libusb-1_0-devel orc portaudio portaudio-devel python-cheetah 
python-devel python-lxml python-wxGTK python-wxWidgets-devel qwt-devel 
wxWidgets-devel xmlto

(add texlive-latex to the list above if you want all the gnuradio docs to build - latex install alone needs about 300MB of disk)

To enable building gr-qtgui in addition to all the rest, you have to point cmake to the location of the qwt header files:

cmake -DQWT_INCLUDE_DIRS=/usr/include/qwt5 ../