[Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio core, make check and debian

[Patrick Mitran]

Hi,

I had some interesting experiences in getting the gnuradio core to
pass make check on an Debian machine (Knoppix actually) which
somewhat diagrees with tips that I saw mentioned in the mailing list,
so I though that I would share my experiences in case it helps anyone...

First off, I'm using a Debian unstable distribution. I saw all the warnings
about gcc 3.3, so I upgraded to gcc 4.0.2. However, with this version,
I get a seg-fault in src/test when running make check.

I then attempted to use gcc 3.4.5 instead and had the same problem.
Running gdb on test_filter, I saw from the backtrace that the crash
occured in a memory deallocation part of cppunit. At this point I though
that it may have to do with cppunit perhaps compiled with a different
version of gcc.

So I decided to build cppunit from source with gcc 3.4. However, make check for
cppunit failed with a compilation error which I decided not to attemp
to fix. Instead,
I reverted to the apt-get package for cppunit and despite the warning, I built
gnuradio core with gcc 3.3.6 and make check ran succesfully!

Hope that may help someone,
Patrick