Hi Mike,
On 08/03/2016 09:29 PM, Mike Willis
wrote:
Well I did work it out eventually, it is
extremely difficult for non-expert developers to use this
software to anything like its potential.
Honestly, I can feel your frustration, believe me. I'd love being
able to roll out GNU Radio and dependencies on every system out
there instantly! We all would!
Why can’t Pybombs check for this sort of
thing?
It does.
It shouldn’t be difficult to develop a
script to find old installations and highlight them.
Well, sadly, it is. It is nearly impossible to do so reliably :(
Pybombs, aside from those packages that are explicitly marked for
source building, checks for "native" packages!
You *can* usually install GNU Radio from source into a prefix using
Pybombs next to a "native" packet. But looking at your PYTHONPATH,
your system has gone through multiple iterations of that scheme, and
now is seriously messed up. Sorry to say that. It's not pybombs.
It's that your system, through all of the attempts of varying
success at installing things parallely to your distro's installation
directories has become so atypical. It's very important to me to
stress this isn't "your fault" or anything. It's just that you and
we have probably spent more time than reasonable at "fixing" that
system instead of drawing a line somewhere clearly stating that it
now would pay to make a clean-slate installation. :(
You might say it’s just me but maybe I am
the 1% that has looked at it, tried and failed but didn’t then
give up. I meet many people who would like to use gnuradio but
just find it gets too difficult very quickly.
I know! I hope we can sort this out quickly!
For those who like me who just want to get
on with life and not spend day or two learning about the
intricacies of cmake – the old method of installing blocks:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../
make
sudo make install
needs to be replaced by:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/wherever/you/installed/gnuradio
make
make install
Correct! If you don't want to install into the system default
non-distro prefix but into your private prefix, you need to tell
your build system.
Since it became standard to build in a non
default prefix, not /usr/local/ 90% of the information on the
web about how to do this is out of date.
:(
Best regards,
Marcus
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