Re: Looking to deprecate GRC_PREFS_PATH use in mingw64

Hi Chris,

not sure if this is really what you're asking, but: Is this related to the changes made in

https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio/pull/7350 (or 7404 on maint-3.10)?

Best regards,
Marcus

On 21.06.24 19:52, Chris Gorman wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I'm trying to get a build of gnuradio running under mingw64. It is
> installed and works mostly. I've patched it with Ryan Volz's patch
> for removing the global_blocks_path in favour of using prefix to set
> the blocks path. This works and I no longer need to set the
> environment variable GRC_BLOCKS_PATH in my .bashrc to launch
> gnuradio-companion.py.
>
> I'm wondering if there is an analogous solution to the use of
> GRC_PREFS_PATH? I currently have to set GRC_PREFS_PATH to the
> grc.conf file in my .bashrc to have gnuradio-companion.py to save the
> file on exit. I don't have a problem with this, but it would be nice
> to have it save the prefs path to a place in my home directory when it
> exits without the use of the environment variable.
>
> I also noticed in my travels that the .config/gnuradio/grc.conf has
> become a directory, I assume to facilitate the progression to using
> the qt-gui. Is the correct location for the grc.conf file
> .config/gnuradio/grc.conf/grc.conf?
>
> I'm currently running main's 5c1edfe06 git hash as qwt-qt5 is at 6.3.0
> under mingw64 and the 3.10.10.0 release requires that qwt-qt5 be less
> than 6.3.0. Perhaps I should be using a different branch?
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Chris
>