Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] problems with setting up RFNoC environment within

[Martin Braun]

On 16.09.2015 06:17, Jason Matusiak wrote:
>> PyBOMBS + RFNoC is a bit iffy, you need to manually edit the uhd.lwr
>> file to have it build the rfnoc-devel branch. Then, it *should* work,
>> but I'll admit I haven't tested it myself.
> 
> Martin, to wrap a bow on this, here is the steps I've taken (and redone
> to make sure things seem OK) and it seems to make everything happy:
> 
> *cd ~ && git clone https://github.com/gnuradio/pybombs.git
> *cd pybombs && ./pybombs install gnuradio
> **Setup as you would like things, the only stuff I change was setting
> forcepkgs to uhd (and in the long list of things in the next option do
> it all but uhd), and builddocs to ON
> *When done gedit recipes/uhd.lwr
> **comment out the first gitbranch and uncomment the second to enable
> RFNoC support
> *back in ~/pybombs, gedit config.dat and remove uhd from the forcepkg
> line
> *then ./pybombs install uhd
> *cd src/uhd && git submodule init && git submodule update
> *cd ~/pybombs && ./pybombs install gr-ettus
> *./pybombs env (now you can source ~/target/setup_env.sh before you
> start to play with GRC)
> 
> Maybe there is a cleaner way to do it, or I am missing something else,
> but this seemed to allow me to run both regular GRC scripts as well as
> RFNoC scripts on the X310 with no errors.

I admit this seems a bit heath robinson (or rube goldberg for you
Americans), but thanks for the feedback and the writeup!

Cheers,
Martin