Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GnuRadio on HPPA

[Eric Blossom]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:06:39AM +1100, Geoff wrote:
> On Thursday 28 February 2008 02:39, Eric Blossom wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 07:08:40PM +1100, Geoff wrote:
> > > Hi Guys,
> > >   does anybody on the list know of a successful build and installation of
> > > GnuRadio on the HPPA architecture? (Debian 4.0). If it turns out that it
> > > hasn't been done I'll post the details of my failures :-(  (mustn't
> > > clutter the list :-) )
> > >
> > > Cheers, Geoff.
> >
> > You may be able to get it to compile, but I don't think the vmcircbuf
> > stuff (circular buffer via MMU trick) will work on HPPA because of
> > its use of virtual mapped caches (unless they stopped using virtual
> > mapped caches while I wasn't paying attention).
> >
> > Eric
> 
> No need to send the error messages then, that is exactly where it is falling 
> over :-) .  "./configure" and "make" work OK but but "make check" falls over 
> on the vmcircbuf stuff. Any ideas on how to get around this guys? My hppa box 
> stikes me as the sort of very robust box that will go for ever :-). 
> Unfortunately I am a pretty useless code cutter and I'm not much better at 
> reading it :-( . Things like grc are what will save me here.
> 
> Cheers, Geoff.

There's no easy way to fix this for HPPA. 

May I suggest a nice Core 2 Duo or Quad?

Eric