Finally got pd-0.21 to compile on my linux platform. Mea culpa.... I had installed 'egcs' , an experimental gcc 'improvement' (even higher degrees of optimization than standard gcc available ...someone on the csound list reported a major increase in speed in csound compiled with this compiler)...the compiling went without hitch, and it reported linking ok, but died when the egcs linked binaries tried to dynamically link in libc . Which means, before any pd code even got called. So I changed back to "cc" (a link to the real gcc),and voi-la! (voi-ci?) Like my mid-western buddy always says: "like, weird, with a beard, man...."
Onwards into the OSS world, and hopefully, full duplex on linux .
Anybody else seen the problem I found on NT (dacs often die almost immediately, but when they don't they function perfectly.)..I betcha this has to do with the multiple soundcards I have on my system....I will try the new args to specify card/midi under NT. You know, it's nice to have the source!
CharlieB