Hello the camp,
I'm struggling with an installation on Ubuntu 16.04. Note that apt-get does install a working GNUradio stack and UHD works with a USRP2. However, my goal is to install a build environment.
For my 1st effort I used git to clone the uhd driver directory and was able to get a clean build from the source and the make test all worked correctly. After make install uhd_usrp_probe finds the USRP2. However, on connecting a GRC uhd source to waterfall sink the run fails. The problem is that the UHD driver is newer than the apt-get installation of gnuradio so the two are incompatible. Also, the gnuradio install doesn't seem to have the source for a build environment either.
So next effort is to try to use pybombs to install into a prefix directory. Having all the source and being able to modify it and run in a local sandbox is exactly what I'm after. Used apt-get to remove uhd and gnuradio. But I'm finding pybombs difficult to use.
After a few emails from Martin at Ettus and a great deal of tinkering with permissions I can do the following:
$ pybombs prefix init ~/gnuradio/src/prefix -R gnuradio-default
This will init my prefix directory and start the installation and compile of a sandbox. However, it doesn't finish. It get to bladeRF and aborts with "Unable to fetch recipe bladeRF". Whats *much* more frustrating is that I can't get any other form of a pybombs command line to run and give me information about the prefix install. I just get the "usage" statement. And the init won't run after the first time, I get a:
PyBombs.prefix - ERROR - Ignoring. A prefix already exists in `/home/napierm/gnuradio/src/prefix'
So if I run:
rm -rf gnuradio/src/prefix/*
rm -rf gnuradio/src/prefix/.*
Then I can start over. PyBOMBS is supposed to be able to show what is installed and manage/add modules. Any ideas what to try next?
Thank you very much in advance,
Mark Napier