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

[Eric Blossom]

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