Hi All,
In figuring out why seqdemo.pd did not work (in the cool faust/tools/faust2pd/examples distribution), I discovered that the local file ./seq.pd was being shadowed by /usr/lib/pd/extra/cyclone/seq.pd_linux. It appears that, due to search order, all externals, wherever they may reside in the search path, take precedence over .pd files, even those in the current working directory. It seems to me both externals and subpatches in the cwd should take precedence over the rest of the search path. Also, I would expect subpatches to take precedence over externals in the same directory (with a warning about the shadowing printed to the console).
My workaround, by the way, was to rename seq.pd to seqr. pd in the seqdemo directory.
Cheers, Julius