Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fwd: hangup in make process

[Eric Blossom]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 08:17:00AM -0700, Johnathan Corgan wrote:
> vsrk sarma wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible to run gr with only few components installed?
> 
> Yes. Your list of configured components is ok.  The remaining components
> are optional and require additional libraries or tools to build.
> 
> > Can software be tested without hardware installed?
> 
> Yes.  Run 'make check' after the build as is described in the
> installation instructions.
> 
> > Is 512MB RAM adequate?
> 
> For 3.0.x, not really; we recommend 1 GB of memory.  In release 3.1,
> this will go down to 512 MB recommended.

I'd still recommend 1GB for the build (g++'s resident set size is still
about 450MB when compiling the trunk)

512MB should be fine for running, depending on what else
you're doing on the machine.

  RAM : cheap :: PROGRAMMERS : expensive

Eric