Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] "How to Write a Signal Processing Block" vagueness

[Johnathan Corgan]

Jason Uher wrote:

> In the guide, you say "The good news is that we provide boilerplate
> that can be used pretty much as-is" and I assume you are referring to
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuradio/gr-howto-write-a-block-3.0.2.tar.gz

Yes (there is a newer version than that however.)

> It seems like in the tarball that the autotools have already been run,
> because there is no bootstrap file, but there is a configure script,
> when I follow the steps like running 'make check' after I do a
> ./configure everything works fine, but that means that I can't change
> the names of the files if I wanted to make a new block because
> configure explicitly looks for the 'howto' files.

Beginning with release 3.1.3, the bootstrap script will be included in
the tarball so you can run it if you have autotools installed and want
to make these sorts of changes.  In the interim, you can copy the script
from the trunk which will work just fine:

http://gnuradio.org/trac/browser/gnuradio/trunk/bootstrap