Re: Question on OOT- Modules installation path

[Marcus Müller]

Hi Volker,

in the current style of the OOT ecosystem: the modtool style.

gr-osmosdr (and other modules of the same authors) have historically
deviated from that (well, or, they were around before anyone even
thought of having a common style), and want to be installed *into* the
GNU Radio installation.

That *does* have advantages (like, you can do "from gnuradio import
volkersmodule", instead of the less clear "import volkersmodule"), but
it requires users to have administrative rights to modify the
system-wide GNU Radio installation, whereas the modtool style
installation is perfectly translateable to any prefix.

Best regards,
Marcus

On 12.04.20 12:59, Volker Schroer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to expand the gr-osmosdr oot module using the funcube ( fcd,
> fcdproplus ) modules. While gr-fcd formerly was a part of gnuradio and
> disappeard in 3.8, fcdproplus was always a oot module.
> 
> In gnuradio >=3.8 oot modules provide gnuradio-{oot-name}Config.cmake
> and some others.
> 
> Now I came across that using gr_modtool these files will be installed to
> ${GNURADIO_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib/cmake/"Module name",
> while some other oot's like gr-iqbal or gr-osmosdr put these files to
> 
> 
> ${GNURADIO_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib/cmake/gnuradio.
> 
> This path has consequences how to find these modules later.
> 
> So my question:
> What is the recommended path for these files.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance
> -- Volker
> 
>