Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Reporting experience of installation from source of GnuRadio-3.7.8

[James Humphries]

Hi Daniele / Marcus,

I'll add my experience as well. I have been testing installs of Ubuntu 15.04 in a VMware virtual machine. I limit it to 2GB of RAM. I was using pybombs to install UHD + GNURadio. Install would halt at a certain point (no error) every time. Solution was to limit make to 2 threads (pybombs default is 4). Everything went smoothly from there. I agree that 4GB is probably a better number for development, though.

-Trip

On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 6:07 PM, Marcus Müller <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Daniele,

good point!
The problem is that the amount of RAM you'd need depends on quite a lot
of factors, from compiler version over boost dependencies, even when
running make single-threaded (not as "make -j8" or so).

Generally, 2GB sounds like it'd be too little for development
workstation usage nowadays, I agree.

Best regards,
Marcus

On 18.09.2015 16:12, Daniele wrote:
> Hi!
> I just want to share my experience of installing gnuradio-3.7.8 on a PC with
> debian stretch (test version).
> Initially, the PC was equipped with only 2 GB of RAM and the installation
> finished with an error. (To be more precise, after performing "cmake ../" in
> the build directory and executing the command "make").
> After several attempts I gave him back the "make" command to read the error
> messages.
> Then compile resumed without problems. This suggested to me that could be a
> problem of RAM. Adding another 2 GB of RAM to the same PC everything worked
> properly.
> I suggest that it would be necessary to point out this requirement in the
> notes describing the installation process. (I read this item only about
> those who want to use the DVD with a live distribution containing gnuradio).
>
> I hope this notes could be useful.
>
> Daniele
>
>
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