Jonathan, if you do ./configure with option --prefix=<absolute path to root dir of that Pd distribution>, you can do a local install without su privileges. This doesn't solve the issue with updating but anyway it's convenient.

Katja


On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>On 2013-02-20 18:55, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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>> I'd skip the copy and just do:
>>
>> ./autogen.sh ./configure make ./src/pd -nrt    (-nrt so it ignores
>> the watchdog)
>>
>that's not needed with Pd>=0.44: if the watchdog cannot be found, Pd
>will fallback to non-realtime.


Thanks for the help.  Actually it's not such a big deal to do the cp command.
The main problem is that when I make a src code change and do "make"
again, it obviously recompiles the changed files but when I run pd I end up
with the old behavior, so it's obviously not updating everything correctly.

The src/pd file is a bash script, not an executable, and it seems I have to
do "make install" with su privileges if I want to make an executable.  I don't
want to go to that trouble, nor do "make clean && make" every time I make
changes and test them out.

-Jonathan


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