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Add formula for gr-iio #10

Closed rgov closed 3 years ago

rgov commented 3 years ago

This is a formula to install gr-iio.

It requires this change to Homebrew for the gnuradio formula: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/65437

The formula is HEAD-only because there is no release that builds with GNU Radio 3.8, which is what Homebrew offers. There is a patch needed to fix a compilation error that I cherry-pick from master because it has not yet landed in upgrade-3.8 yet.

Normally, a Homebrew formula should declares all of its Python package dependencies as resource sections to be installed by pip, as the mainline gr-osmosdr formula does. However it doesn't look to me like there are any.

There are two minor issues with the dependencies:

  1. This wiki page says that building it requires liborc-dev on Linux, so I added the orc dependency as well, but I can't figure out if it is actually used?

  2. CMake seems to fail to detect MPIR but we build successfully anyway, so I marked it optional. This is something that probably needs to be fixed in gr-iio's CMake configuration. (This needs to be resolved before upstreaming this to homebrew-core.)

rgov commented 3 years ago

The pull request has been updated to build gr-iio in the CI workflow. All packages are built and tested individually now.

Please see the two bullets above for potential improvements.