Re: GNU Radio 3.9 gr_modtool problem

[Josh Morman]

Check your ~/.gnuradio/config.conf file.  In there is a section [modtool] and a "newmod_path=..."

Verify that matches the value of your installed path.

On mine it says: 

[modtool]
newmod_path = /share/gnuradio/gr39/share/gnuradio/modtool/templates/gr-newmod

For 3.9, there was a slight change in the behavior how GR finds the newmod path:

https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio/pull/3266

in that it will look wherever the currently installed prefix is, which can be seen with

gnuradio-config-info --prefix

Make sure your environment variables are sourced correctly - PATH, PYTHONPATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and LIBRARY_PATH

On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 5:50 PM Ralf Gorholt <ralf.gorholt@gmx.de> wrote:

Dear all,

on my Linux Mint (Ubuntu) box, I have installed and compiled GNU Radio
3.9 from source (master branch) as described here:

https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/UbuntuInstall#Focal_Fossa_.2820.04.29

and here:

https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/InstallingGR#From_Source

CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX is /usr.

GNU Radio compiles (without UHD and soapy support) and the tests are ok.
gnuradio-companion starts and everything seems ok. However, when I try
to create a new module with "gr_modtool newmod dl5eu", I get the error
message: ModToolException: Could not find gr-newmod source dir.

I have also tried what was necessary for Ubuntu 18:

$ cd /usr/share/gnuradio/modtool/templates/gr-newmod
$ sudo py3clean .

but this did not solve the problem.

With version 3.8 compiled from the maint-3.8 branch I don't have this
problem. Do you have an idea what I am doing wrong here?

Thank you very much.

Kind regards,

Ralf