Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Cannot compile on Archlinux due to missing includes

[Eric Blossom]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 06:44:00PM +0000, Casey Tucker wrote:
> 

> Hello again. I'm trying to build gnuradio-3.1.2 (and svn, and 3.1.1,
> with the same results) on a very recent install of Arch Linux (using
> GCC 4.3), and I'm running into a brick wall trying to make it
> compile. The problem I'm having seems to result from #includes not
> being setup properly. For example, after I run make, it errs on
> gr_dispatcher.cc, saying:

> 
> gr_dispatcher.cc: In member function 'void gr_dispatcher::loop(double)':
> gr_dispatcher.cc:177: error: 'perror' was not declared in this scope
> make[5]: *** [gr_dispatcher.lo] Error 1
> make[5]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/casey/gnuradio-3.1.2/gnuradio-core/src/lib/runtime'

Thanks for pointing these out.  You're using a later version of GCC
than most of us use for development.  This shouldn't be a problem, but
sometimes new versions of gcc show places where we're being sloppy.

> Being the responsible soul, I tracked down what the missing include was, and 
> stuck it into gr_dispatch.cc (or .h, I've tried these steps several times 
> over). This solved the compilation problem with gr_dispatch, but it quickly 
> erred out on another file, and another, and another. So I went as far as to 
> include the missing headers (string.h, stdio.h) into config.h.
> Suffice it to say, it still does not build, and I finally get errors along 
> the lines of:

> In file included from gr_packed_to_unpacked_bb.cc:32:

in gr_log2_const.h, try removing the word "static".

> /home/casey/gnuradio-3.1.2/gnuradio-core/src/lib/general/gr_log2_const.h:34: 
> error: explicit template specialization cannot have a storage class
> /home/casey/gnuradio-3.1.2/gnuradio-core/src/lib/general/gr_log2_const.h:35: 
> error: explicit template specialization cannot have a storage class
> /home/casey/gnuradio-3.1.2/gnuradio-core/src/lib/general/gr_log2_const.h:36: 
> error: explicit template specialization cannot have a storage class
> /home/casey/gnuradio-3.1.2/gnuradio-core/src/lib/general/gr_log2_const.h:37: 
> error: explicit template specialization cannot have a storage class
> /home/casey/gnuradio-3.1.2/gnuradio-core/src/lib/general/gr_log2_const.h:38: 
> error: explicit template specialization cannot have a storage class
> /home/casey/gnuradio-3.1.2/gnuradio-core/src/lib/general/gr_log2_const.h:39: 
> error: explicit template specialization cannot have a storage class
> /home/casey/gnuradio-3.1.2/gnuradio-core/src/lib/general/gr_log2_const.h:40: 
> error: explicit template specialization cannot have a storage class
> /home/casey/gnuradio-3.1.2/gnuradio-core/src/lib/general/gr_log2_const.h:41: 
> error: explicit template specialization cannot have a storage class
> /home/casey/gnuradio-3.1.2/gnuradio-core/src/lib/general/gr_log2_const.h:42: 
> error: explicit template specialization cannot have a storage class
> /home/casey/gnuradio-3.1.2/gnuradio-core/src/lib/general/gr_log2_const.h:43: 
> error: explicit template specialization cannot have a storage class
> /home/casey/gnuradio-3.1.2/gnuradio-core/src/lib/general/gr_log2_const.h:44: 
> error: explicit template specialization cannot have a storage class
> make[6]: *** [gr_packed_to_unpacked_bb.lo] Error 1
> make[6]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/casey/gnuradio-3.1.2/gnuradio-core/src/lib/gengen'
> make[5]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[5]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/casey/gnuradio-3.1.2/gnuradio-core/src/lib/gengen'
> 
> PLEASE help. I have never had this much trouble trying to compile gnuradio on 
> Arch.
> -Casey

My main compute server is down right now.  I'll try to build
everything with GCC 4.3 later on this week.

Eric