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OpenResearchInstitute / ka9q-sdr

Package containing several modules including the multicast IP stereo field manager
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Failed to build on Ubuntu 14.04 #5

Closed jschiefer closed 5 years ago

jschiefer commented 6 years ago

In addition to the fftw3 issue in #2, Ubuntu 14.04 has the additional problem that one of the header files used (stdatomic.h) requires a gcc version > 4.9. Ubuntu 14.04 ships with gcc 4.8.

ka9q commented 6 years ago

On 6/22/18 01:38, Jan Schiefer wrote:

In addition to the fftw3 issue in #2 https://github.com/phase4ground/ka9q-sdr/issues/2, Ubuntu 14.04 has the additional problem that one of the header files used (|stdatomic.h|) requires a gcc version > 4.9. Ubuntu 14.04 ships with gcc 4.8.

Really? Seems pretty old. I run Debian Stable (stretch) on most of my systems and it has gcc 6.3.0.

I do like to make my software as portable as possible, but there are practical limits. Often the the newer version of something is the "right" one to use in that it fixes some problem that is otherwise difficult or impossible to fix.

Phil

Abraxas3d commented 6 years ago

Any progress on this? What can I do to help fix it?

jschiefer commented 6 years ago

Updating gcc is probably a non-starter. Maybe a workaround can be found, but as support for 14.04 is ending in April of 2019, I would suggest we focus our energy elsewhere. If we decide to not fix this, we need to update the README.md and INSTALL.md files to reflect this fact.

ka9q commented 6 years ago

What minimum version of Ubuntu is required to compile the package as it currently is? I'd like to add that to the documentation.

ExplodingLemur commented 5 years ago

Ubuntu 14.04 is end-of-support. Should this be closed?

jschiefer commented 5 years ago

Closing this as won't fix.