From: jcorgan Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:03:56 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Updated README for gsl and GRC X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4c84464a17b1a89a733846bd194ba7cedb1e4429;p=debian%2Fgnuradio Updated README for gsl and GRC git-svn-id: http://gnuradio.org/svn/gnuradio/trunk@10453 221aa14e-8319-0410-a670-987f0aec2ac5 --- diff --git a/README b/README index 6229ecd2..2f7e7229 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -22,10 +22,6 @@ Welcome to GNU Radio! -As of August 3, 2006 we have restructured the GNU Radio build process -and moved the source code repository from CVS to subversion. - - Please see http://gnuradio.org/trac for the wiki, bug tracking, and source code viewer. If you've got questions about GNU Radio, please subscribe to the discuss-gnuradio mailing list and post your questions @@ -44,14 +40,6 @@ For information about subversion, please see: http://subversion.tigris.org/ - -GNU Radio is now distributed as one giant blob, instead of N smaller -blobs. We believe that this will reduce some of the build problems -people were seeing. Now you'll always get all of the code, and the -configure step will determine which components can be built on your -system. - - How to Build GNU Radio: (1) Ensure that you've satisfied the external dependencies listed @@ -63,8 +51,8 @@ How to Build GNU Radio: With the exception of SDCC, the following GNU/Linux distributions are known to come with all required dependencies - pre-packaged: Ubuntu 6.06, SuSE 10.0 (the pay version, not the - free download), Fedora Core 5. Other distribution may work too. + pre-packaged: Ubuntu 8.10, SuSE 10.0 (the pay version, not the + free download), Fedora Core 9. Other distribution may work too. We know these three are easy. The required packages may be contained on your installation CD/DVD, or may be loaded over the net. The specifics vary depending on your GNU/Linux @@ -78,7 +66,6 @@ How to Build GNU Radio: See the wiki at http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki for details. - FIXME: update the wiki; talk about OS/X, NetBSD and MinGW too. (2) do the "usual dance" @@ -176,7 +163,8 @@ single-precision libraries. Python 2.3 or later is now required. If your system splits python into a bunch of separate packages including python-devel or -libpython you'll most likely need those too. +libpython you'll most likely need those too. The GNU Radio Companion +application requires Python 2.5 or later. (5) Numpy python library http://numeric.scipy.org @@ -215,21 +203,30 @@ worry about it. Scheme interpreter. http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html +(11) GNU Scientific Library (gsl) 1.10 or later + +The GNU Radio core library uses some routines from here. Optional, but nice to have: -(11) wxPython. Python binding for the wxWidgets GUI framework. Use +(12) wxPython. Python binding for the wxWidgets GUI framework. Use version 2.5.2.7 or later. Again, almost all systems have this available. As a last resort, build it from source (not recommended!) http://www.wxpython.org -(12) xmlto version ? or later. http://cyberelk.net/tim/xmlto/index.html +(13) xmlto version ? or later. http://cyberelk.net/tim/xmlto/index.html Wrapper for XML conversion tools to ease e.g. making html from docbook. +(14) Python Cheetah extensions 2.0.0 or later +(15) Python lxml wrappers 2.0.0 or later +(16) Python gtk wrappers 2.10.0 or later + +The GNU Radio Companion application requires these additional Python libraries +to be installed. ---------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -239,7 +236,7 @@ class hierarchy etc. Point your browser at gnuradio/gnuradio-core/doc/html/index.html -To run the examples you'll need to set PYTHONPATH. Note that the +To run the examples you may need to set PYTHONPATH. Note that the prefix and python version number in the path needs to match your installed version of python. @@ -264,3 +261,4 @@ happens with pkgsrc and NetBSD. To build, tell configure to use these locations: LDFLAGS="-L/usr/pkg/lib -R/usr/pkg/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/pkg/include" ./configure --prefix=/usr/gnuradio +