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gnuradio-osmosdr: no hook into gnuradio block directory?

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From: Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv <at> posteo.net>
To: christopher <at> librehacker.com
Cc: 40952 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#40952: gnuradio-osmosdr: no hook into gnuradio block
 directory?
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:38:45 +0200

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Christopher Howard <christopher.howard <at> qlfiles.net> skribis:

> Hi, I installed gnuradio and gnuradio-osmosdr, but when I open
> gnuradio, none of the osmosdr blocks are available from gnuradio blocks
> list. Specifically, I was looking for osmosdr source block, which I am
> familiar with from using gnuradio under Debian. I believe the problem
> is that the osmosdr blocks are not in the directory where gnuradio-
> companion is looking for blocks.
>
> When starting up gnuradio-companion, stdout indicates grc is looking for blocks here:
>
> /gnu/store/h2igg2gcbx6ds8wbvlkqz0dkplvwjxbd-gnuradio-3.8.0.0/share/gnuradio/grc/blocks
>
> But osmosdr blocks are in 
>
> /gnu/store/ppb504vizb32f4w2s5f0yd6i4xpy41nz-gnuradio-osmosdr-0.2.0/share/gnuradio/grc/blocks/
>
> Evidentally gnuradio package needs to be enhanced to create a per-
> profile merged directory from all gnuradio- block packages that are
> installed. Unless there is some way to extend the gnuradio search path
> through environment variables.

Hi Christopher,

I pushed a fix (commit cf480830e22e7725b8607b5b895e49f74d4e1525) that
should put the paths to installed third-party blocks in GRC_BLOCKS_PATH,
and allow gnuradio-companion to see them. Could you check if it works
for you?

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