Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Graphical programming with Ptolemy

[John Clark]

Robert McGwier schrieb:

> John Clark wrote:
>
> > Eric Blossom schrieb:
> >
> > > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 09:22:46AM -0700, John Clark wrote:
> > >  
> > >
> > > > Patrick Strasser schrieb:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > It seems to becoming an 'annual' event that I setup a GNURadio 
> > > > environment, and this year's candidate machine seems to have almost
> > > > nothing of the antecedent packeges...
> > > >   
> > >
> > >
> > > Gee, if you use *any* of Mandriva, SuSE, Ubuntu or FC5, I think the
> > > only thing you've got to build is SDCC. Perhaps you ought to rethink 
> > > your distribution choice...
> > > Out of curiousity, what distribution are you using?
> > >  
> >
> > Well the problem here is that, the machine is not 'mine'. It appears 
> > to be a Redhat
> > 9 setup, and the directive was 'put gnuradio' on the machine... not 
> > 'format and
> > install a new distribution, then install gnuradio'...
>
>
> Then why would you blame GnuRadio for an ancient OS?  On Ubuntu,   I 
> had to load SDCC and that was it.   I had to BUILD NOTHING.  The 
> installations were binary. 


No 'blame', just it is not 'clear' when a dependency package is listed, 
that there are futher dependencies, which add up to a major problem
for some setups, even if it is a 'brandnew out of the box' disribution 
which someone has not had the foresight to load in a large number of
features which at the time of installation, do not seem to be useful.

I also indicated that when I have total control over a machine, I 
usually will 'update' as well as use a reasonable distribution. However,
when asked to install a particular package on a machine which I don't 
have such control over, I have to work within that limitation.

Just as an aside, what is SDCC... Small Device C Compiler?? and why 
would that be the obvious missing thing to load in?

John Clark