[Discuss-gnuradio] C++ Block Development / configure.ac

[Martin Braun]

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