On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 01:21:09PM +0100, Martin Braun wrote: > Hi block developers, > > I've some questions regarding block development. First of all, what I did was > take the gr-howto-write-xxx package, chuck out anything that was > howto-specific and replace it with my own code. Is this how everone else goes > along? > > Next, I realized that if I don't want to call my module 'howto' I need to > edit > configure.ac. Here is what I guessed: > > AC_INIT > AC_PREREQ(2.57) > AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/lib/howto.i]) > AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h) > AC_CANONICAL_TARGET([]) > AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(gr-howto-write-a-block,3.1.1) > > Changing AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR to the source of my i-files and putting in the > directory name of my block in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE seemed to work, after > re-running ./bootstrap. > This all seems to work, but I'd like to know if I've missed anything else > which is usually changed (but not in the docs for howto-write-a-block)? > > I apologize if this all seems trivial, but it caused some confusion for me > (e.g., I wasn't able to run `make check' without installing my modules at > first, before I had the configure.ac settings right). I wouldn't mind > righting some lines for the howto-write-a-block docs if anyone else feels > this is worth mentioning to autoconf and automake newbies. > > -- > Martin Braun > Institut fuer Nachrichtentechnik > Universitaet Karlsruhe > > http://www.int.uni-karlsruhe.de
Hi Martin, We would gratefully accept patches for the documentation. (gr-howto-write-a-block/doc/howto-write-a-block.xml) Thanks, Eric _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
