On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Albert Chun-Chieh Huang < [email protected]> wrote:
> Tom Rondeau <[email protected]> writes: > > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Albert Chun-Chieh Huang < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi, all, > >> > >> I updated MacPorts to 2.1.3 just now and installed gnuradio-next by the > >> following command: > >> > >> $ sudo port install gnuradio-next +full configure.compiler=llvm-gcc-4.2 > >> > >> When I tried to run gr_filter_design, it gave me this error message: > >> $ gr_filter_design > >> Please install PyQwt5 to run this script (http://pyqwt.sourceforge.net/ > ) > >> > >> To execute it, I deactivate qwt forcefully by > >> $ sudo port -f deactivate qwt > >> > >> And then install PyQwt5 by: > >> > >> $ sudo port py27-pyqwt > >> > >> Then running gr_filter_design works perfectly! Good! > >> > >> Should gnuradio-next depends on PyQwt5 instead of qwt package? > >> > >> -- > >> Albert Chun-Chieh Huang(黃俊傑) > >> Blog: Random Notes, http://alberthuang314.blogspot.com/ > > > > > > Albert, > > > > No, you still need QWT for gr-qtgui. We also don't want to add PyQWT as a > > dependency since you don't require it to install anything. You need it > for > > runtime on a few apps and examples, but as you saw, we catch that import > > error and provide a slightly nicer error message about what's going on. I > > don't like the idea of adding runtime dependencies to the compile time > list > > of requirements. Having said that, we could check for runtime > dependencies > > and not install apps that fail, but this wouldn't stop compilation. I > > haven't done that, yet, because it's a bit of a management nightmare to > > keep all of that tied together. I think the runtime error message about > the > > missing Python component is sufficient. > > > > Tom > > Hi, Tom, > > Thanks for your reply. In the beginning, I thought gnuradio will also > work well with qwt 5.2.1 that comes with py27-pyqwt package. But I > tested it with QtGUI in gnuradio-companion, and it failed. > > Now I get it. QtGUI in gnuradio-companion depends on QWT 5.1.2 and > gr_filter_design depends on PyQwt 5.2. So I try to install PyQwt 5.2 on > MacOSX without MacPorts. Now both gr_filter_design and QtGUI work fine > on my Mac. > > GNU Radio 3.7 is really a huge jump for this project! Thank you all very > much! > > > -- > Albert Chun-Chieh Huang(黃俊傑) > Blog: Random Notes, http://alberthuang314.blogspot.com/ > I consistently run using Qwt 5.2 (actually version 5.2.2) on some of my machines. I normally try to run Qwt6, but I test against both. On my OSX machine, I only run Qwt6, though, so I'm not sure if there's some issue with 5.2.1/2 on that platform. Tom
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