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GNU Radio 3.3.1-git on Gentoo Linux

10.07.2010 (23 o'clock)

The dependencies for GNU Radio 3.3.1 out of the git repo are looking currently like this on Gentoo:

emerge swig fftw cppunit boost alsa-lib sdcc guile wxpython xmlto numpy gsl

The official wiki sadly missed the gsl package. Without this one you won’t fulfill the requirements for nearly all packages of GNU Radio (not even gnuradio-core). After emerge of these packages you can grab the source and compile it:

# git clone git://gnuradio.org/gnuradio
# cd gnuradio
# ./bootstrap
# ./configure --prefix=/usr/
# make
# make check
# sudo make install

Another important point which will be interesting in the future, is the incompatibility of GNU Radio to Python 3. With eselect you should check which version of Python is at the moment your preferred interpreter. At the time of writing on my machine Python 2.6.5 was the current interpreter. This one handles GNU Radio without to much trouble.