Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio/master-3.3: make check error on Mac OS X 10.6.7

2011-05-16 Thread Michael Dickens
It looks like GTK isnt coming up right. And the other errors all stem from that. Is the X server running? Yes. I'm running MacPorts' XQuartz 2.6.1. Odd, but GRC works using Apple's X11.app (XQUartz 2.3.6). And, now, randomly, it works in XQuartz 2.6.1 as well. Hmmm ... well, I guess all's

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio/master-3.3: make check error on Mac OS X 10.6.7

2011-05-16 Thread Michael Dickens
% which python /opt/local/bin/python % which pythonw /opt/local/bin/pythonw On May 16, 2011, at 9:47 PM, Josh Blum wrote: can you confirm: which python which pythonw ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio/master-3.3: make check error on Mac OS X 10.6.7

2011-05-16 Thread Michael Dickens
On May 16, 2011, at 9:52 PM, Josh Blum wrote: Hmm, well maybe my hunch is busted. Can you confirm the problem when you run it w/ /opt/local/bin/python gnuradio-companion Changes nothing. GRC works, but still generates that error. - MLD ___

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How can we make GNU Radio better?

2011-05-11 Thread Michael Dickens
On May 11, 2011, at 4:33 AM, Martin Braun wrote: I'll just name some things from the top of my head... [snip] I realise most of these things are very typical for such a large FOSS projects with so many contributors, but still, I can imagine they can confuse other people than me. For the sake

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How can we make GNU Radio better?

2011-05-11 Thread Michael Dickens
On May 11, 2011, at 11:06 AM, Tom Rondeau wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Michael Dickens m...@alum.mit.edu wrote: * 'b' for bit, 'B' for byte, 'c' for char, 'f' for 32-bit IEEE float, etc... we have a problem. 'c' is used for complex numbers, so what do we do about characters? I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How can we make GNU Radio better?

2011-05-10 Thread Michael Dickens
On May 10, 2011, at 4:21 AM, Martin Braun wrote: 3a) Remove inconsistencies which have popped up due to the organic 'growth' of GNU Radio over the last years. Can you elaborate on what you see these inconsistencies to be? Even just an example of one would probably suffice. - MLD

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why Isn't GNU Radio Used More?

2011-05-09 Thread Michael Dickens
Can we bring Tom's post to this list? http://gnuradio.squarespace.com/home/2011/5/8/why-isnt-gnu-radio-used-more.html Yes, I do actually read his posts ;) I hope others do too; he writes with clarity and has things to say if you're into SDR and GNU Radio. I hope Tom's post sparks some

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why Isn't GNU Radio Used More?

2011-05-09 Thread Michael Dickens
On May 9, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: I think there's a significant community out there that learned DSP techniques inside the envelope of Matlab/Simulink, and that's what they're comfortable with. True; that's how I did (MATLAB; Simulink wasn't around yet). I'd take that a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why Isn't GNU Radio Used More?

2011-05-09 Thread Michael Dickens
Intellectual Property: Many people / companies view the GPL as being incompatible with IP -- and, whether true or not, this perception is certainly an issue. To make progress here, maybe GNU Radio could take Ettus' UHD dual-license approach, if that is still possible? I don't know if the FSF

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why Isn't GNU Radio Used More?

2011-05-09 Thread Michael Dickens
On May 9, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: this is, in fact *software* defined radio. So why is it always a big surprise when hardware types encounter an SDR platform and become more-than-vaguely-queasy at the though of having to, perhaps, learn a little bit about software. If I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why Isn't GNU Radio Used More?

2011-05-09 Thread Michael Dickens
On May 9, 2011, at 1:59 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: I think you (tangentially) touched on an interesting point. Many users come to Gnu Radio expecting it to be A turnkey application to solve my radio problems. They don't really get that it's a *development* platform for *developing*

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why Isn't GNU Radio Used More?

2011-05-09 Thread Michael Dickens
On May 9, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Alexander Chemeris wrote: Dual-licensing is a flawed model, it's truly hard to make it working right. From what I understand, dual licensing mostly works for Qt -- and, I doubt that Ettus would be exploring it for UHD if it didn't have some merits. I wonder if you

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why Isn't GNU Radio Used More?

2011-05-09 Thread Michael Dickens
Good points, Kunal. I know that Tom has talked about having nightly builds for the major OSs -- as much as anything to make sure that the GIT master always compiles and passes make check at the end of the day. Maybe he could also set up that system such that it provides those builds as

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why Isn't GNU Radio Used More?

2011-05-09 Thread Michael Dickens
On May 9, 2011, at 3:13 PM, Matt Ettus wrote: I believe this conversation has strayed quite a bit from GNU Radio itself. Not entirely, because I think a number of us believe that licensing is a real issue. But, as you say, that ain't gonna change any time soon unless the FSF decides to do so

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why Isn't GNU Radio Used More?

2011-05-09 Thread Michael Dickens
On May 9, 2011, at 4:42 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: Gnu Radio, to me, is a DSP engine that happens to live on a general-purpose compute platform. True. But the GNU Radio model is build on data-flow, while the Octave model is not -- and, that might be a key difference. People have grown, for

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why Isn't GNU Radio Used More?

2011-05-09 Thread Michael Dickens
On May 9, 2011, at 5:12 PM, Ben Reynwar wrote: I'm pretty sure you only have to release the source to people who you are giving/selling the software too, and only if they ask for it. So if you're developing the software for one customer there is no issue at all. If you have more than one

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why Isn't GNU Radio Used More?

2011-05-09 Thread Michael Dickens
I think that you'll find many people who cross multiple fields of expertise on this list -- I think that's part of the fun of SDR and GNU Radio to many of us. Your point that SDR encompasses many disciplines is valid, and certainly leads to a steep learning curve for some people. I have, in

[Discuss-gnuradio] WInnComm'11 Europe?

2011-05-07 Thread Michael Dickens
Anyone else heading to WInnComm'11 Europe, June 22-24? I'm a presenter, and am trying to find reasonably priced accommodations -- The Hotel has a special for this conference of EU 179 - 259 (currently US$ 260 - 376) per night, before taxes such but including breakfast wifi, which is a bit

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] sdcc and usrp in latest master copy

2011-05-03 Thread Michael Dickens
GNU Radio does not work with SDCC 3.0 (which is what sdcc -v you provided says it is); latest it works with is 2.9. See also http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnuradio/2010-11/msg00460.html . - MLD ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list

[Discuss-gnuradio] conventional installers

2011-03-09 Thread Michael Dickens
On Mar 8, 2011, at 11:12 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: My expectation is that eventually, there will be conventional installers for Gnu Radio + UHD for Windows, Linux, and MacOS environments, and that those installers will be kept fairly up-to-date with the development sources. But we're not

[Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio on /. Keys Leaking Through the Air At RSA

2011-02-15 Thread Michael Dickens
http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/02/15/2052252/Keys-Leaking-Through-the-Air-At-RSA The RSA Conference is underway in San Francisco. A theme among the opening speakers is that the attackers are winning, and even well-funded organizations like NASDAQ can't secure their networks reliably. The

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio on /. Keys Leaking Through the Air At RSA

2011-02-15 Thread Michael Dickens
No primary article ... g ... but an interesting comment: http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1997316cid=35215688 Some background (Score:5, Informative) by Dr. JJJ (325391) on Tuesday February 15, @05:43PM (#35215688) I'm sorry that there's no direct article for this submission, and

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] TPB Scheduler - Block Scheduling Rate

2011-01-28 Thread Michael Dickens
On Jan 28, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Ben Hilburn wrote: As I understand it, there is code in the GNURadio scheduler stuff that manages block scheduling, to some degree. I'm aware of the kernel's role in switching between the threads themselves, but I was under the impression that block scheduling,

[Discuss-gnuradio] UND's Radioware ...

2011-01-27 Thread Michael Dickens
... no longer accepts HTTPS; it is now HTTP only. I've updated the GNU Radio Wiki pages to reflect this internal change. Google returns correct results (HTTP only), but if (for whatever reason I do not know) you've bookmarked radioware.nd.edu, please note that it no longer works with SSL. -

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio and CUDA reprised

2011-01-12 Thread Michael Dickens
I have a feeling -- from working with OpenCL for a while now (but, not in GNU Radio yet), watching profiling timing information (how long it takes to move data around, how long kernels take to get queued and executed) -- that what folks here have written seems mostly true: there is

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio and CUDA reprised

2011-01-12 Thread Michael Dickens
On Jan 12, 2011, at 2:56 PM, Moeller wrote: On 12.01.2011 14:25, Michael Dickens wrote: the CPU). I think that if a GPU can be used, it will be most effective in things like filterbanks, or when searching for packets (via their unique sync sequence, so matched filtering), or very large FIR

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Parallel programming

2011-01-11 Thread Michael Dickens
I don't think there's much specialized info out there on this topic, since it's relatively standard programming; experience and knowledge are your best guides! That said, there are some excellent books on parallel algorithms and programming out there. Some of my favorites include (in no

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Parallel programming

2011-01-10 Thread Michael Dickens
Assuming you're using a reasonably recent GIT checkout, then your flow-graph should be executing in thread per block mode by default -- each block you create in your flow-graph will reside in its own unique thread. You can manually override this setting to be in single threaded scheduler mode

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Parallel programming

2011-01-10 Thread Michael Dickens
Without seeing your GRC implementation or Python script block's implementation code, mostly what I or anyone else can provide is general advice. GNU Radio 3.3.0 uses the thread per block (TBP) scheduler by default; if you're not doing anything else except running the flow-graph (meaning: you

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] an example of a gnuradio project using cmake

2010-12-13 Thread Michael Dickens
On Dec 13, 2010, at 7:33 PM, Tom Rondeau wrote: The biggest problem that I see with cmake is that the burden of proof lies with cmake. I'm 100% confident that CMake, or QMake for that matter (and, I'm sure, BJam and other build tools), could handle the GNU Radio build system robustly if

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] src/lib/general/gr_firdes.h: WIN_BLACKMAN_hARRIS = 5

2010-12-06 Thread Michael Dickens
My vote: It's hilarious. But, that's after meeting Fred in person last week noting that, indeed, he -always- does all lowercase for his name, even on the printed program (I'm sure there are exceptions, but there were none at the conference). If I hadn't met him or seen all of this, I'd

[Discuss-gnuradio] SDCC 3.0.0?

2010-11-22 Thread Michael Dickens
MacPorts just upgraded SDCC from 2.9.0 to 3.0.0, which seems to have changed the install names of various of the executables including the one required by USRP: asx8051 - sdas8051. I haven't verified that these executables work equivalently; I'll try to do that tonight. Has anyone tried doing

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SDCC 3.0.0?

2010-11-22 Thread Michael Dickens
Looks like the 3.0 series changes SDCC itself. Doing make in USRP (after building dependencies) using SDCC 3.0 results in: Making all in lib sdcc -mmcs51 --no-xinit-opt -I../../../../../usrp/firmware/include -c ../../../../../usrp/firmware/lib/delay.c -o delay.rel

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio via MacPorts Updated

2010-11-12 Thread Michael Dickens
On Nov 12, 2010, at 4:12 PM, Alexandru Csete wrote: I don't know if anything got fixed in the macports package but I got a tip to execute a python_select python26 and reboot. After doing so and installing py26-scipy I could execute the qt_digital.py example included in the gr-qtgui

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OS X 10.6, x86-64 built from GIT fails at 'make check'

2010-10-29 Thread Michael Dickens
On Oct 29, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Jakub Moskal wrote: Thank you Michael for your efforts. Would that mean it is just an issue with the test, not with the gnuradio compilation itself? Yes; looks like that directory (and file) was updated 12 days ago (commit 4a3fb7eb7481177ae35bb98307a1845a7304d97e

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC 3.3.0 block documentation missing

2010-10-29 Thread Michael Dickens
On Oct 29, 2010, at 2:53 PM, Ed Criscuolo wrote: On 10/29/10 12:29 PM, Josh Blum wrote: Did you build and install the doxygen documentation? I installed under OSX 10.6.4 using Michael Dickens' macports packaging of 3.3.0 Look atprefix/etc/gnuradio/conf.d/grc.conf Is there documentation

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OS X 10.6, x86-64 built from GIT fails at 'make check'

2010-10-28 Thread Michael Dickens
The issue is in gnuradio-core/src/filter/qa_gri_fir_filter_with_buffer_ccc.cc. The ERR_DELTA is set to 1e-5, which for some reason is too tight for OSX (at least 10.6.4 x86_64); when I change this value to 1e-4, the test passes. Since gnuradio.org is down, I can't check to see if this value

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio via MacPorts Updated

2010-10-02 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Ed - Good stuff; I'm glad someone else is trying these ports out. A few thoughts: (1) Can you send me, off list, the issues you're having getting ports installed as i386 or universal or whatever (ports log files as indicated by port)? I'll see what I can do to fix them up. For example,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio via MacPorts Updated

2010-09-15 Thread Michael Dickens
On Sep 14, 2010, at 5:12 PM, Michael Dickens wrote: We're just discussing this issue (32-bit execution) on the MacPorts' lists. The quick end-result is: With the current MacPorts' provided python2.6 or older, the PREFER_32_BIT stuff does not work because 'python' is actually just a wrapper

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio via MacPorts Updated

2010-09-14 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Dave - We're just discussing this issue (32-bit execution) on the MacPorts' lists. The quick end-result is: With the current MacPorts' provided python2.6 or older, the PREFER_32_BIT stuff does not work because 'python' is actually just a wrapper around 'exec' and the bit-preferences are no

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio via MacPorts Updated

2010-09-09 Thread Michael Dickens
Thank you, Alexandru, for the report. I'm glad the basics work for you; they do for me as well. Everything seems to work except for the QtGUI. I've found in my install that the QtGUI doesn't work yet either, in exactly the same way that yours fails. I know where the problem lies, and I'll

[Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio via MacPorts Updated

2010-09-07 Thread Michael Dickens
I've updated the GNU Radio install via MacPorts to 3.3.0. For those OSX users out there who are using GNU Radio and MacPorts, could you give this a shot see if it works for you? If you do install them for testing purposes want to use a non-MacPorts GIT install for your actual work, make

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio via MacPorts Updated

2010-09-07 Thread Michael Dickens
On Sep 7, 2010, at 2:04 PM, Elvis Dowson wrote: Does it use the GTK+ with support for native OS X look and feel? It uses whatever MacPorts provides; by default: gtk2 @2.20.1_0 +x11 but I can specify for it to use instead: gtk2 @2.20.1_0 +no_x11 +quartz and then I have to go through all

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP/gnuradio Issues in OS X

2010-08-26 Thread Michael Dickens
On Aug 26, 2010, at 11:12 AM, HR Myler wrote: What we really, really want is a DMG file ;-) That would be awesome, and very difficult to create because of the extensive background dependencies of GNU Radio / Companion (even just for gnuradio-core). I did once create a DMG installable .app

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP/gnuradio Issues in OS X

2010-08-25 Thread Michael Dickens
I just updated to the latest GIT master indeed make check fails in gr-usrp with the Symbol not found: _usb_debug in gr-usrp if MacPorts 'libusb-compat' is installed -- thanks for the pointer, Mark. I'll request in MacPorts that the PKGCONFIG file for 'libusb-compat' be renamed to reflect

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP/gnuradio Issues in OS X

2010-08-24 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Mark - I'm glad you got it working; if you installed all of the background dependencies with MacPorts, compiling GNU Radio should be as simple as: [fix bootstrap] ./bootstrap ./configure make make check sudo make install with no other options. IIRC, the 3 primary environment variables

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP/gnuradio Issues in OS X

2010-08-23 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Mark - I don't know where to point you exactly, since some tests work for you while others don't. You're using --with-fusb- tech=libusb1, which should work but hasn't been thoroughly tested (at least on OSX). Have you tried configuring without this flag then re- testing to see what

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP/gnuradio Issues in OS X

2010-08-23 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Mary - So long as you use MacPorts for background dependencies, libusb1 and libusb-legacy (v0.1.12) can be installed at the same time you can easily choose between them (different PKGCONFIG files). Do note that libusb-compat does NOT work with FUSB/Darwin since GNU Radio's FUSB/LIBUSB

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Distorted playback of real-time audio on Linux

2010-08-19 Thread Michael Dickens
On Aug 19, 2010, at 1:31 AM, Elvis Dowson wrote: The issue manifests itself on both a VM and with GR running natively on my hardware (late 2009 iMac 27 i7). My US$0.02 worth: TTBOMKM, on the Mac OS X side you can input and output about any sample rate CoreAudio will handle the sample rate

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio on osx 10.6.4

2010-07-20 Thread Michael Dickens
Shortest Answer: This list isn't the correct venue for your issues with Qt and Carbon / Cocoa; the GNU Radio build system is working correctly and as expected under the circumstances. If you have issues with the way Qt build on OSX, please see their forums and possibly issue a ticket

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio on osx 10.6.4

2010-07-20 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Elvis - I'm sorry but I really can't help without further config.log / debugging info. And, frankly, I don't have time to dig through this issue right now -- just too much in my queue already. I'm happy that someone else is trying to get gr-qtgui working, and I wish you luck on this

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio on osx 10.6.4

2010-07-19 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Elvis - Did you try configure --with-fusb-tech=libusb1? You have to specify that you want to use LIBUSB version 1; config/ usrp_libusb.m4 checks to see if you've specified this on the CLI if not then doesn't check for this version of LIBUSB. If you did try that command line, then

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio on osx 10.6.4

2010-07-19 Thread Michael Dickens
On Jul 19, 2010, at 12:57 PM, Elvis Dowson wrote: One of the things that the guys working on GTK+ mentioned was that you should completely uninstall MacPorts, to do the GTK+ installation. The GTK+ installation has a whole bunch of dependencies, so I will try that last. That part I think is

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio on osx 10.6.4

2010-07-19 Thread Michael Dickens
Use the provided 'bootstrap' routine, but remember to change the 'libtoolize' call to 'glibtoolize' or whatever you named that function on the version you installed yourself. If you used MacPorts to install GNU Libtool (of which 'libtoolize' is a part), then it prepended the 'g' for you.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio Companion and WxWidgets 2.9.0 on Mac OS X 10.6.4

2010-07-18 Thread Michael Dickens
On Jul 18, 2010, at 3:09 AM, Elvis Dowson wrote: WxWidgets 2.9.0 supports Cocoa on Mac OS X 10.6.4, so if I were to get that running with WxPython, would grc automatically switch over to using Cocoa instead of gtk, when running on Mac OS X? Short answer: yes. Longer answer: So long as you

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio Companion and WxWidgets 2.9.0 on Mac OS X 10.6.4

2010-07-18 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Elvis - As I said, good luck with the 64-bit cocoa version. I'm choosing to wait until 2.9.0 comes out, but also concentrating my efforts on getting Qt working well enough that it can be used instead -- if you're running 10.5 or 10.6, you can get a 64-bit cocoa version pretty easily.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio on osx 10.6.4

2010-07-18 Thread Michael Dickens
On Jul 18, 2010, at 3:35 AM, Ninja wrote: checking for Python include path... /usr/local/include/python2.6 checking Python.h usability... no checking Python.h presence... no checking for Python.h... no configure: error: cannot find usable Python headers what is the meaning of configure: error:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio Companion and WxWidgets 2.9.0 on Mac OS X 10.6.4

2010-07-18 Thread Michael Dickens
Now, you need to install Python Cheetah templates = 2.0.0, Python lxml wrappers = 1.3.6, and Python gtk wrappers = 2.10.0 in order to GRC to be built. Does GRC require GTK, or does it use wxPython for the GUI? My bad: GRC uses GTK2 for the GUI, not wxPython -- right Josh?

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio on osx 10.6.4

2010-07-18 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Rasyid - You have the classic problem that's been around for years now (you can search the GNU Radio archives for Python.h and get hits back to 2005). The problem is that autoconf generates the test for Python.h using C-code but tries to compile it using a Fortran compiler; more recent

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Unable to build gr-wxgui on Mac OS X 10.6.1

2010-07-15 Thread Michael Dickens
On Jul 15, 2010, at 5:54 AM, Bruhtesfa Ebrahim wrote: It is kind of confusing. I have Gnuradio installed, so executing the gnuradio examples in their own directory works fine. But, from the home directory..it restult in: $ python dial_tone.py

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Unable to build gr-wxgui on Mac OS X 10.6.1

2010-07-08 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Bruh - Glad to hear you're getting Wx to work for you. We're working on getting the Qt GUI working as well. I know that the state of Wx on MacPorts is confusing right now -- to me as well. If I were you, now that you've got it working, I'd leave my MacPorts install alone until the Wx

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Unable to build gr-wxgui on Mac OS X 10.6.1

2010-06-20 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Bruh - If you installed py26-wxpython and wxWidgets from MacPorts, then as of this morning neither allow for 'universal' compilation, and wxWidgets goes so far as to enforce 32-bit only compilation. Chances are your Mac's compiler is trying to generate 64-bit code. Hence, the wxpython

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 2 issues with latest GIT master, at least on OSX 10.5.8

2010-06-03 Thread Michael Dickens
Thanks, Johnathan, for those fixes in recent check-ins; between them and starting with a clean build, almost everything is taken care of ... one last item now: $ make check [snip] Making check in gr-video-sdl Making check in src make check-am make check-TESTS objc[56471]: Class

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 2 issues with latest GIT master, at least on OSX 10.5.8

2010-06-03 Thread Michael Dickens
I just checked -- it's a MacPorts / SDL issue; I'll submit a bug report to them. Sorry! - MLD On Jun 3, 2010, at 9:37 AM, Johnathan Corgan wrote: On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 08:16, Michael Dickens m...@alum.mit.edu wrote: Thanks, Johnathan, for those fixes in recent check-ins; between them

[Discuss-gnuradio] 2 issues with latest GIT master, at least on OSX 10.5.8

2010-06-01 Thread Michael Dickens
(1) % ../../configure checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin9.8.0 checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin9.8.0 checking target system type... i386-apple-darwin9.8.0 checking for git... /opt/local/bin/git checking existence of git version control directory... ok checking git

[Discuss-gnuradio] 2 issues with latest GIT master, at least on OSX 10.5.8

2010-06-01 Thread Michael Dickens
(1) % ../../configure checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin9.8.0 checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin9.8.0 checking target system type... i386-apple-darwin9.8.0 checking for git... /opt/local/bin/git checking existence of git version control directory... ok checking git

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 2 issues with latest GIT master, at least on OSX 10.5.8

2010-06-01 Thread Michael Dickens
Sorry for the double post; strange internet goings-on down here. Nothing has changed about my setup w/r.t. 'cut' or anything else. 'which cut' returns '/usr/bin/cut' which is supplied by Darwin. 'which date' returns '/bin/date' which is also Darwin -- this issue has been around for a while

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 2 issues with latest GIT master, at least on OSX 10.5.8

2010-06-01 Thread Michael Dickens
(1) configure.ac:296 BUILD_DATE=`date -R -u` The '-u' works (Display or set the date in UTC (Coordinated Universal) time), but there is no -R option to Darwin's built-in 'date'. What does the '-R' option specify? Maybe there's another way to do it on Darwin that's more

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 2 issues with latest GIT master, at least on OSX 10.5.8

2010-06-01 Thread Michael Dickens
On Jun 1, 2010, at 2:38 PM, Johnathan Corgan wrote: $ echo '1-2-3-4' | awk -F- '{print NF}' 4 Can you test Darwin's 'awk' for this? the '$' line returns exactly '4' ... I guess that's good? ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 2 issues with latest GIT master, at least on OSX 10.5.8

2010-06-01 Thread Michael Dickens
On Jun 1, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Johnathan Corgan wrote: From the manpage: -R, --rfc-2822 output date and time in RFC 2822 format. Example: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:34:56 -0600 Can we instead use something like: $ date -u +%a, %d %b %Y %R:%S which isn't quite RFC 2822 compliant since

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 2 issues with latest GIT master, at least on OSX 10.5.8

2010-06-01 Thread Michael Dickens
With the change in 'date' and using 'awk', I still got the python dyld load error, which I tracked down to the SWIG libraries. Doing 'make clean' there and then 'make' did the trick. !...@#$% fragile SWIG stuff. - MLD ___ Discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio final release candidate 3.3.0-rc3 available for download

2010-05-31 Thread Michael Dickens
3.3.0-rc3 still passes make check on OSX; I can't test further, really, but previous candidates did work so this one probably does too. Still does not pass make distcheck; errors on in gr-qtgui, as it did before (see below for error message). BTW gr-qtgui is not enabled; as before the Qt

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio release 3.3.0-rc0 available for testing

2010-05-18 Thread Michael Dickens
On May 17, 2010, at 8:11 PM, Tom Rondeau wrote: If I had access to an OSX box, I'd see about getting qtgui to work better on it. Well ... IIRC, the issue is that there is no standard install of Qt on OSX; one must do it by hand from source or use MacPorts / Fink / whatever. At least for

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio release 3.3.0-rc0 available for testing

2010-05-17 Thread Michael Dickens
The standard configure; make; make check; make install; make uninstall works just fine on OSX 10.5.8. make distcheck fails in gr-qtgui before 'configure' even gets executed, I suppose because this component doesn't compile easily on OSX to begin with (so, I don't use it) -- either way,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Parallel transmission and reception....

2010-05-03 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Ali - I think if you search the GNU Radio discussion list you'll find some references similar to what you want to do. As a quick reply: If you want to monitor the channel using the same Tx/Rx antenna and Flex board, then you have 2 choices: (1) Do simultaneous Tx and Rx: You'll need

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to synchronize feedback between blocks?

2010-04-29 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Martin - On Apr 29, 2010, at 9:23 AM, Martin Braun wrote: y(n) = x(n) + x(n-2) My question is: can GNU Radio be modified to accept this? It's a perfectly valid flow graph (similar to ones you find in DSP textbooks), and thanks to the history of the delays, one that should work. I'd be

[Discuss-gnuradio] OSX Testing Request for Branch

2010-04-22 Thread Michael Dickens
I'm in a place where I have no USRP with which to test some changes. The change is to move from a mix of threading via gr-omnithread and darwin pthreads (via an intermediate class I called 'mld_threads') to the gruel:: namespace threads. Here's the info: $ git checkout

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] git macports OSX 10.6 x86_64

2010-04-13 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Chris - I'm glad to hear you have at least some parts of GNU Radio working as 64-bit on OSX 10.6. I don't have 10.6 installed (yet) for further testing, but I'm heading that way one of these days. I've been holding out for the release of wxPython 2.9.0, which will officially support

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MacPorts and GNU Radio 32-bit

2010-04-12 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Ed - I never got multi-boot installed, so, no, I haven't gotten those changes in place. That said, the MacPorts folks are discussing ways to get WX stuff to be 64-bit compatible under 10.6, so I might not need to do anything if they succeed soon enough. How badly do you want / need

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] git macports OSX 10.6 x86_64

2010-03-20 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Christian - On Mar 20, 2010, at 2:41 PM, Christian Kendi wrote: the git has the problem: configure: creating ./config.status config.status: error: cannot find input file: `gruel/Makefile.in' With or without CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS=-arch i386 doesnt matter. yes, been bootstrapping before. The

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MacPorts and GNU Radio 32-bit

2010-03-13 Thread Michael Dickens
I think this is an issue between wxWidgets the JPEG library. Try: sudo port selfupdate sudo port upgrade outdated ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem installing new module

2010-03-11 Thread Michael Dickens
Sagar resolved this issue off-list, without my help but with some good discussion. That said, I got curious about what might be going one, and after some hacking around on my Mac's installs of GNU Radio I think the issue is that you have multiple versions installed and this particular

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MA (Memory Acceleration) and SR-DVB in Karlsruhe, @ WSR10

2010-03-09 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Vincenzo - Can you also provide links to your papers, both the WSR10 one and whatever you can on your MA technique? Enquiring minds will want to know more about MA ... Thanks! - MLD ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Enabling the cognitive radio with GNU Radio+USRP

2010-03-06 Thread Michael Dickens
On Mar 4, 2010, at 2:45 PM, Jakub Moskal wrote: Last question.. I own to USRPs and I successfully installed the gnuradio with grc on two MacBooks (10.6.2). Examples run fine, but when it comes to the tunnel.py I cannot make the TUN/TAP interface to work on OSX, has anyone had luck with that? I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem installing new module

2010-03-06 Thread Michael Dickens
On Mar 5, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Sagar Kapare wrote: The exact same code works on two other machines, both running OSX 10.5. The sink is a locally created modules, so it is entirely possible that there is something missing in the instantiation that is being caught on only on my machine and not

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Custom block problem on OSX 10.6

2010-02-20 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Kunal - I can't directly address the question of whether or not custom blocks work on OSX 10.6 x86_64, since I've never compiled by custom blocks under that OS (yet). I need to do some 10.6 x64 work anyway, so I'll try out my blocks later today see what happens. Not sure if this makes

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio and OS X installation - path problem?

2010-02-19 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Fabrizio - Glad to hear you had success using MacPorts to install GNU Radio on your 10.5 box. That's the goal! On Feb 19, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Fabrizio Tappero wrote: seem (to me) to indicate the wrong path (at least for my installation). To have all working I had to change: if [

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] modifying how-to-write-a-block 3.2.2

2010-02-15 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Affan - Since you modified the how-to stuff to meet your needs, it'll be difficult for any of us to provide definitive assistance without seeing your code (I, personally, have very little free time this week until I get a presentation finished). That said, if you do succeed come up

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MacPorts and GNU Radio 32-bit

2010-02-12 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Ed - Thanks for the feedback, it's useful; I don't mind being wrong! I'll have to set up my Mac to do multi-boot (10.5 and 10.6) in order to further test this issue out. That said, the kernel bit-tage doesn't really matter since it's the compiler that determines the applications

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] installing new modules

2010-02-12 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Affan - Glad to hear you're up and running, and using PPC and 10.5. If you're planning on using a USRP, I hope you have a USB 2.0 adapter ... those older PPC Macs didn't do USB 2.0 very well. Hmm ... that's all quite strange; by default how-to is installed into / usr/local , with the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MacPorts and GNU Radio 32-bit

2010-02-11 Thread Michael Dickens
hanks for all the feedback thus far! Can those of you on this thread return back to me the following (as executed in a terminal, individually): gcc -v machine uname -a Once I figure out the logic (and, via the below discussion, I think I know what to do but I just want more info to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MacPorts and GNU Radio 32-bit

2010-02-11 Thread Michael Dickens
Marcel, Ed, and Kunal - Thanks for the data points -- it looks like all 3 of your computers booted from the 64-bit kernel; please correct me if I'm wrong. --- Anyone else on the GR list have a Mac running OSX 10.5 or 10.6 who would care to participate in getting some more data points? I'm

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MacPorts and GNU Radio 32-bit

2010-02-09 Thread Michael Dickens
I've checked in MacPorts modifications that should allow for installing GNU Radio 3.2.2 via MacPorts on 10.5 (Intel or PPC; 32 or 64 bit; universal too) or 10.6 (32 or 64 bit, except for gr-wxgui since it relies on wxPython which doesn't have a 64-bit compatible version yet; wxWidgets

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MacPorts and GNU Radio 32-bit

2010-02-09 Thread Michael Dickens
Thank you Marcel for mentioning that little detail: before trying MacPorts out, if it's already installed, you'll want to do what he wrote below in order to get the latest portfiles w/ patches such. Hopefully that will solve your issue Kunal; if not, let me know. % sudo port selfupdate %

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio-3.2.2 build on mac os 10.6.2

2010-02-04 Thread Michael Dickens
Is there any update on this issue? Is there any workaround available? A quick search of the discuss GNU Radio list archive at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnuradio/ reveals the following in the first page: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnuradio/2009-10/msg00185.html

[Discuss-gnuradio] MacPorts and GNU Radio 32-bit

2010-02-04 Thread Michael Dickens
I've updated MacPorts to use GNU Radio 3.2.2 ; if you're using OSX 10.5 or 10.6 as 32-bit, please give these ports a try see if they work for you. And, let me know if you run into any difficulties. Your shell environment's PYTHONPATH and such just need to work with MacPorts -- nothing

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] mac leopard install problem

2010-02-01 Thread Michael Dickens
On Jan 27, 2010, at 11:10 AM, Clark Pope wrote: Didn't realize they cared as long as you purchase the OS. Guess I'll try dual boot instead, but I doubt that's this particular problem. Everything else seems to run okay. I'm not saying they do care; my bet is that so long as you own a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] mac leopard install problem

2010-02-01 Thread Michael Dickens
On Feb 1, 2010, at 2:29 PM, Charles Brown wrote: I finally received word just now that I'll be approved shortly as a MacPorts developer; yay! Once I'm approved, I'll update the MacPorts portfiles for GNU Radio for the 3.2.2 release tarball. I'll see if I can get additional

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] mac leopard install problem

2010-01-26 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Clark - Various levels of response. Bottom line is: You're way outside the scope of usual OSX / GNU Radio / MacPorts installs, so I don't know what assistance we can provide if the issue is non- standard (as this one seems to be). Good luck! - MLD 0) According to the EULA for Mac OS X

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GR on CentOS 5 x64_64?

2010-01-13 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Charles - Thanks for your extensive and quick reply! I'll give it a shot using RPMforge as you suggest. If I can get anything going, I'll push it to the GR wiki (since there is no entry for CentOS yet). - MLD On Jan 13, 2010, at 10:20 AM, Charles Herdt wrote: I haven't installed

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