Bugs item #2803998, was opened at 2009-06-10 04:25 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by eighthave You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=478070&aid=2803998...

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Status: Closed Resolution: Fixed

Priority: 1 Private: No Submitted By: IOhannes m zmlnig (zmoelnig) Assigned to: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave) Summary: PdX-documentation and location of user-added externals

Initial Comment: the documentation of PdX in manuals/Pd/ReadMe.html still says that externals should be globally installed into "/usr/share/pd-externals".

however, PdX actually searches does not search /usr/share/pd-externals (as this would violate the FHS) and instead uses "/usr/local/lib/pd-externals" (which is FHS compliant and is documented at http://puredata.info/docs/faq/how-do-i-install-externals-and-help-files-with...)

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Comment By: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave)

Date: 2009-06-10 11:56

Message: Yeah, its carefully hidden in packages/Makefile, where its generated ;) I suppose that's kind of silly but its been like that for years.

Fixed in commit 11736

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Comment By: IOhannes m zmlnig (zmoelnig) Date: 2009-06-10 04:38

Message: i would fix this myself if i could only find the documentation in the svn...

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