FC4, FC6, F7 what works, and don't

[Karl Larsen]

Chris Jones wrote:
>> One exception is a library that does the Fast
>> Fourie Transorm on an input signal. It was available by yum on FC6 and
>> F7 but when I tried to ./configure it would not find fftw. 
>> I had to get the tar ball and compile it and install on /usr/local/
>>     
>
> Don't know about FC6, but its available just fine for F7 (see below) - No need 
> for the tarfile approach, although I guess it worked for you  ...
>
> Notes
>
> 1. fftw and fftw2 are different -  don't know which you need.
>   
    The Boys/Girls at MIT found the version 1.x was so popular they 
started a version 2.x which alas no-one uses. It will not work with gmfsk.
> 2. Did you install the associated -devel package as well as the main library 
> package.
Nope my error!
>  You need the -devel package in order to get the header files need to 
> build other packages against it I.e. development).
>
> Chris
>
>   
    Yes I should have asked for fftw.devel and that would get both. Next 
time...

Karl

> [root at localhost ~]# yum search fftw
> Loading "downloadonly" plugin
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Loading "kernel-module" plugin
> Loading "fedorakmod" plugin
> Loading "skip-broken" plugin
> Loading "priorities" plugin
> Loading "kmdl" plugin
> 71 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
>
> fftw-devel.i386                          3.1.2-3.fc6            fedora
> Matched from:
> fftw-devel
> Headers, libraries and docs for the FFTW library
> FFTW is a C subroutine library for computing the Discrete Fourier
> Transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions, of both real and complex
> data, and of arbitrary input size.
>
> This package contains header files and development libraries needed to
> develop programs using the FFTW fast Fourier transform library.
> http://www.fftw.org/
>
>
>
> fftw.i386                                3.1.2-3.fc6            fedora
> Matched from:
> fftw
> FFTW is a C subroutine library for computing the Discrete Fourier
> Transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions, of both real and complex
> data, and of arbitrary input size.
> http://www.fftw.org/
>
>
>
> fftw2-devel.i386                         2.1.5-14.fc7           fedora
> Matched from:
> fftw2-devel
> Headers, libraries and docs for the FFTW library
> FFTW is a C subroutine library for computing the Discrete Fourier Transform
> (DFT) in one or more dimensions, of both real and complex data, and of
> arbitrary input size. We believe that FFTW, which is free software, should
> become the FFT library of choice for most applications. Our benchmarks,
> performed on on a variety of platforms, show that FFTW's performance is
> typically superior to that of other publicly available FFT software.
>
> This package contains header files and development libraries needed to
> develop programs using the FFTW fast Fourier transform library.
> http://www.fftw.org/
>
>
>
> fftw2.i386                               2.1.5-14.fc7           fedora
> Matched from:
> fftw2
> FFTW is a C subroutine library for computing the Discrete Fourier Transform
> (DFT) in one or more dimensions, of both real and complex data, and of
> arbitrary input size. We believe that FFTW, which is free software, should
> become the FFT library of choice for most applications. Our benchmarks,
> performed on on a variety of platforms, show that FFTW's performance is
> typically superior to that of other publicly available FFT software.
> http://www.fftw.org/
>
>