Re: Why does preferences file get installed in /usr/local despite setting custom install prefix?

[Neel Pandeya]

Hello Wan:

Did you set a custom installation path when you ran CMake?

How did you invoke CMake when you built GNU Radio?

The Application Note listed below might help you.

https://kb.ettus.com/Building_and_Installing_UHD_and_GNU_Radio_to_a_Custom_Prefix

--Neel Pandeya

On Thu, 22 Apr 2021 at 02:28, Cinaed Simson <cinaed.simson@gmail.com> wrote:

On 4/21/21 9:48 PM, wan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I set a custom install prefix while installing from source. However,
> the preference file still gets installed to /usr/local, as you can see
> from the gnuradio-config-info output below.
>
> gnuradio-config-info --print-all
> /home/.../envs/uhd-gr-default/
> /home/.../envs/uhd-gr-default/etc
> /usr/local/etc/gnuradio/conf.d
> /home/.../.gnuradio
>
> Why does preferences file get installed in /usr/local despite setting
> a custom install prefix? And is this expected?
>
> Regards,
>
> Wan L.

Hi Wan - you should indicate the version of gnuradio you installed.

Something appears to have gone wrong with your install - you're missing
most of the expected information. It looks like your home directory was

   /home/..

For comparison,  here's  the output for version 3.8 that I installed
from source.

gnuradio-config-info --print-all
/opt/gnuradio
/opt/gnuradio/etc
/opt/gnuradio/etc/gnuradio/conf.d
/home/cinaed/.gnuradio

testing-support;python-support;volk;doxygen;sphinx;gnuradio-runtime;gr-ctrlport;gnuradio-companion;gr-blocks;gr-fec;gr-fft;gr-filter;gr-analog;gr-digital;gr-dtv;gr-audio;*
alsa;* oss;* jack;*
portaudio;gr-channels;gr-qtgui;gr-trellis;gr-uhd;gr-utils;gr_modtool;gr-video-sdl;gr-vocoder;*
gsm;gr-wavelet;gr-zeromq
v3.8.2.0-73-g4a84443c
gcc (Debian 8.3.0-6) 8.3.0
Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
g++ (Debian 8.3.0-6) 8.3.0
Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
/usr/bin/gcc:::-O3 -DNDEBUG -march=native -O3 -fvisibility=hidden
-Wsign-compare -Wall -Wno-uninitialized
/usr/bin/g++:::-O3 -DNDEBUG -march=native -O3 -fvisibility=hidden
-Wsign-compare -Wall -Wno-uninitialized