Sounds like it should be. On GNU/Linux installing in alternate locations is not well supported. But it wouldn't a ton of work to sort it out. Patches welcome :)
.hc
On Mar 19, 2008, at 7:41 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
just a small addon: the help-browser opens relative to the pd i am currently running and seems not to use the (absolute) install path.
which means, that pd mixes hardcoded (absolute) install path and relativ path to the binary.
shouldn't it be all relative to the binary?
roman
On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 11:59 +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote:
yo.. actually my bug report was bogus, because it was not related to [import], but to how pd works on linux. it seems, that this bug was closed in the tracker, but some 'unpleasant aftertaste' remains.
why are all pathes hard-coded into pd on linux, while they aren't on windows? correct me, if this is wrong, but i made this conclusion by using [import] and [declare], when running pd from a non-standard (i.e. not the location where pd was compiled for) location on linux. using [declare -sdtpath] in a patch opened in a pd-extended install, which i extracted to my home directory, added a path from
/usr/local/lib/pd/ (the standard pd install path)
and not from
/home/roman/pd-extended/usr/local/lib/pd/
as i would have expected, because i installed it there (extracted from a .deb-package to this place, because i wanted to avoid conflicts with my existing pd installation)
on windows the situation is totally different: i can extract pd or pd-extended, i can put it to any location and [declare -stdpath] seems to always work the same way and adds pathes from
<current_location_of_pd>/
why this difference? why are pathes in pd for windows relative to the current location of pd and in linux hardcoded to the prefix used at ./configure time? why doesn't pd on linux use relative pathes as well?
the way it is handled on windows is much more flexible in my opinion and allows to create packages, that can be put anywhere and just run.
roman
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 15:22 -0700, SourceForge.net wrote:
Bugs item #1912314, was opened at 2008-03-11 20:24 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by eighthave You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/? func=detail&atid=478070&aid=1912314&group_id=55736
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: pd-extended Group: None
Status: Closed Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Roman Haefeli (reduzent) Assigned to: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave) Summary: [import] doesn't seem to add pathes
Initial Comment: tested with: Pd version 0.40.3-extended-20080308
which is installed in: /home/roman/pd-extended-0.40/usr/local/bin/pd (don't know if this infor useful. i think i should mention it, because usually it is installed in /usr/local/bin/pd)
[import iemmatrix] prints: [import] loaded library: iemmatrix
however, when i load this patch:
[import iemmatrix]
[matrix]
[matrix] doesn't get instantiated, but outputs the error:
matrix ... couldn't create
instantiating [iemmatrix/matrix] works fine, though.
also this patch loads fine:
[declare -stdpath extra/iemmatrix]
[matrix]
i tested the same with 'tof' and [destroysend] from the library 'tof' and got similar results.
--
Comment By: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave)
Date: 2008-03-17 18:22
Message: Logged In: YES user_id=27104 Originator: NO
caused by custom install location on GNU/Linux
--
Comment By: Roman Haefeli (reduzent) Date: 2008-03-11 21:38
Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1895440 Originator: YES
it turned out, that this behaviour is indeed related to the non- standard install location. it also turned out, that on linux several things in pd won't work as expexted, if pd is _not_ installed in the directory, where it was compiled for (unlike windows, where pd can be put to an arbitrary place while still everything works fine).
sorry for the noise and bogus bug report
--
You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/? func=detail&atid=478070&aid=1912314&group_id=55736
PD-dev mailing list PD-dev@iem.at http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
___________________________________________________________ Der frhe Vogel fngt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de
PD-dev mailing list PD-dev@iem.at http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
___________________________________________________________ Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de
PD-dev mailing list PD-dev@iem.at http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. - Thomas Jefferson