Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Issue or even a problem with current release

[Eric Blossom]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 01:22:44AM -0400, Gregg Levine wrote:
> Hello!
> On a whim I decided to download the currently available release for
> GNURadio. It complained that I needed the FFT package. I promptly
> found it at its location and built it, and installed it. The configure
> script still says that below my signature, even though I've moved
> everything over to the /usr/lib location. Having never really worked
> with pkg-config scripts, I am at a loss here.
> -- 
> Gregg C Levine address@hidden
> "This signature was once found posting rude
> messages in English in the Moscow subway."
> 
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> checking for fftw3f >= 3.0... Package fftw3f was not found in the
> pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory
> containing `fftw3f.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No
> package 'fftw3f' found
> configure: error: Library requirements (fftw3f >= 3.0) not met;
> consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your
> libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.

You probably didn't install a package that contained the
single-precision floating point version of FFTW.

You didn't say which OS and/or distribution you were using.
It's easy to build FFTW from source, see the top-level README in
gnuradio. 

Eric