Installation problem

GNU Radio
1

I have a particular error that I have been unable to find described. I
would appreciate advice. I have searched very extensively and put in
many hours.

I performed a new install of Ubuntu 11.04 on a PC (Dell Precision
M6300), downloaded and performed sudo bash build-gnuradio.sh, after
modifying it to look in a different
directory for FPGA code (the site was just changed and I appended /old
to
the web site address), and ran the script.
This all worked on two other PCs, and they will both open and run GRC
and talk to my USRP2. I want to use this new computer because it is
significantly faster.

The script performs all of the preliminaries without error. It reaches
the following point.

Doing ldconfig…
Building Gnu Radio…
…Bootstrapping
…Configuring
…Building
make failed

I viewed the log file which contained the following at the end.

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -l/usr/lib/libboost_date_time-mt.so
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -l/usr/lib/libboost_filesystem-mt.so
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -l/usr/lib/libboost_program_options-mt.so
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -l/usr/lib/libboost_regex-mt.so
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -l/usr/lib/libboost_system-mt.so
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -l/usr/lib/libboost_thread-mt.so
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -loptimized
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldebug
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -l/usr/lib/libboost_unit_test_framework-mt.so
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[5]: *** [libgnuradio-uhd.la] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory
/home/lesagegp/Downloads/gnuradio/gr-uhd/lib' make[4]: *** [all] Error 2 make[4]: Leaving directory /home/lesagegp/Downloads/gnuradio/gr-uhd/lib’
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory /home/lesagegp/Downloads/gnuradio/gr-uhd' make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory /home/lesagegp/Downloads/gnuradio/gr-uhd’
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/lesagegp/Downloads/gnuradio’
make: *** [all] Error 2
Exiting Gnu Radio build/install

At least some of these files do exist
e.g. /usr/lib/libboost_date_time-mt.so

Next I tried downloading with git clone
http://gnuradio.org/git/gnuradio.git

And went through the steps
sudo ./bootstrap
sudo ./configure
sudo make

make fails again with the same errors

That’s when I completely reinstalled Ubuntu to make sure no left over
files were causing a problem. Running the script on a fresh install
fails at exactly the same point.

This is my first question submission. I tried to make sure it is neither
obvious or already answered. I appreciate any advice.

Thanks

2

Greg,

I’m getting the same error. I read in another forum that this problem
is solved changing the LD_LIBRARY_PATH value:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

But, I’ve try it with no effect. I’m on Ubuntu 10.04.

Thanks in advance,

Ronaldo

3

On 09/03/2011 01:16 PM, Greg Le Sage wrote:

and talk to my USRP2. I want to use this new computer because it is
significantly faster.

There is zero reason to run build-gnuradio as root. Zero. It
acquires root as it needs it. Ordinary operations don’t require root.
Compiling C code, moving your own files around, editing those files.
You only need to be root to install stuff in the system directories,
update
system software, etc. The build-gnuradio acquires that via “sudo” as
it needs to. Don’t run it as root. That’s just a bad idea.

I viewed the log file which contained the following at the end.
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
And went through the steps
This is my first question submission. I tried to make sure it is neither
obvious or already answered. I appreciate any advice.

Thanks
I just downloaded the latest Gnu Radio via GIT, and did:

make distclean; make clean
./bootstrap
./configure
make; sudo make install

It went entirely fine. So, my assumption is that the very latest
codebase relies on some pre-req that is satisfied on my system (Fedora
14), and
not on Ubuntu. What exactly, that is, I’m not sure.

4

Greg,

As you can read on my last message, the “trick” didn’t work for me. I
saw that you’re running the “Fedora/Ubuntu Installation script”, I
also try it, but the same error occurs to me.

About the community, yes they are such good people! They helped me a
lot in the past.

Marcus,

I agree with you. There is no reason to run the script as root.

OK guys I’ll keep trying to perform the compilation here, if something
works, I’ll report it here.

Thanks,

Ronaldo