Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Which LinuxOS to use?-->1.Unbuntu, Fedora, Mandrake, FreeBSD

[Robert McGwier]

Patrick:

Thanks for the pointer to update-alternatives.  Ubuntu is mostly built 
on top of debian and it is there.  I was told about "alternatives" but 
the suggestion was slightly garbled from what was correct so I could not 
find it immediately.  I lost motivation after I got things to work by 
modifying GnuRadio locally.

Bob


Patrick Strasser wrote:
> Robert McGwier wrote:
> > I need php5.   php5-dev wants  version 1.4 things because Ubuntu 
> > there is some issue.     I could not get aclocal to work unless I 
> > forced aclocal.m4 by hand to call automake-1.9 for example.  I got 
> > all of these am python not found and other blow ups leading to 
> > complete failure.   As soon as I modified aclocal.m4 forcing the call 
> > to later versions of the auto tools, everything worked.
>
> At least Debian has update-alternatives, which is quite usefuill with 
> aclocal, I have 3 versions of automake (1.{4,7,9}.
>
> I do not see any way to tell aclocal which atomake to use, but 
> update-alternatives before building should let you avoid changing the 
> source.
>
> Patrick


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