[Discuss-gnuradio] Error while running gr-modtool

[Manu T S]

Hello everyone,

I am learning about making new blocks in GNURadio.

I'm following the tutorial http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/OutOfTreeModules

I'm getting the following output on running gr_modtool

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address@hidden:coding$ ~/install/bin/gr_modtool newmod howto
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/manu/install/bin/gr_modtool", line 41, in <module>
    main()
  File "/home/manu/install/bin/gr_modtool", line 36, in main
    modtool.setup()
  File "/home/manu/install/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gnuradio/modtool/modtool_newmod.py", line 70, in setup
    self._srcdir = gr.prefs().get_string('modtool', 'newmod_path', options.srcdir)
  File "/home/manu/install/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gnuradio/gr/gnuradio_core_general.py", line 18953, in get_string
    return _gnuradio_core_general.gr_prefs_get_string(self, *args, **kwargs)
TypeError: in method 'gr_prefs_get_string', argument 4 of type 'std::string const'

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Where am I going wrong?

I have installed using the git clone I made about a week ago.

Thanks,

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Manu T S