On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 10:47:22AM +0100, Landry Breuil wrote:
> comms/gnuradio is at 3.8.2 in our portstree while upstream is at
> 3.10.11.0. it is in the way of upgrading boost to 1.87, and has
> frequently been in the way of previous boost upgrades. right now in the
> portstree its on 'life support'.
> 
> is anyone using it on OpenBSD ? willing to look at maintaining it ?

I started looking into it a few weeks back when I was updating
comms/rtl-sdr and comms/hackrf. I couldn't get it to compile for me in
its present state but wanted to try using it. I also noticed it was
quite out of date and started looking at updating the comms/gnuradio
port but it is certainly a more complicated one.

> updating to the maintained 3.10 branch is doable, needs a new port for
> 'volk' (which was previously shipped with gnuradio), following
> https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php?title=LinuxInstall#From_Source and
> probably starting from an empty patches subdir. But we have to figure
> out if it's worth the effort, if somebody is using it or not.

I would certainly like to use it and that is my goal. I'm not sure if I
have the needed knowledge to update the comms/gnuradio port myself as of
yet. I'm hoping to get there and would be happy to attempt to keep it up
to date going forward. I appreciate you asking for feedback on this. My
goal is to get a number of SDR and amateur radio programs working on
OpenBSD like direwolf (port tarball posted to ports@) and also js8call
which I have been working on but has proven to be more challenging.

Bryan