Hi J. Felix and Sunil,

I'm wondering: Are you actually intending to do development on the SIMtrace2
software, or do you just want to use it?

If you just want to use it, why not simply use the osmocom packages provided
for Ubuntu 18.04 at
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/osmocom:/nightly/xUbuntu_18.04/
as explained at
https://osmocom.org/projects/cellular-infrastructure/wiki/Nightly_Builds

Building from source should generally only be done by developers who want
to contribute to development/extension of the software.  And for those, I would
sort-of expect that they know how to do system-level C development on Linux,
including auto-tools, pkg-config, etc.

Regards,
        Harald
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