On 08/10/2016 10:39 PM, Angelo Arcadi wrote:
Dear Iohannes, list, first of all I noticed that in my previous message I wrote /usr/lib/extra while instead I was loading /usr/lib/pd/extra of course.
Secondly, I enabled the verbose option as Iohannes suggested and I noticed the following:
1- creating the objects "declare -stdpath cyclone" or "declare -path cyclone" does not work, one need to create the objects "declare -sdtpath /usr/lib/pd/extra/cyclone" or "declare -path /usr/lib/pd/extra/cyclone".
there seems to be indeed a bug here:
- [declare -path] adds the new path *only* to the current directory.
- [declare -stdpath] tries adding the new path *only* to the
standard-paths (those searched without you passing '-path' on the cmdline).
since you must add "-path /usr/lib/pd/extra" to Pd's search-paths somewhere, there is currently no way to tell Pd to also use this path :-(
like always, the fix should be simple: but first it needs to be decided what the desired behaviour should actually be...
Any suggestion?
here's a workaround for now:
TL;DR: use [declare -path cyclone -stdpath cyclone -lib cyclone] together with "libdir".
"libdir" is a library-loader object that loads directories-as-libraries if they conform to the libdir format (like cyclone; generally all the libraries that have a <libraryname>-meta.pd patch).
- add '/usr/lib/pd/extra' to your general search paths (in Pd's preferences)
- add 'libdir' to the automatically loaded libraries (in Pd's
preferences) - pd-libdir is available via apt. this will work, because the libdir library will install itself into /usr/lib/pd/extra/libdir/libdir.pd_linux, and when loading "libdir", Pd will search (among other things) for libdir/libdir.pd_linux in (among other paths) /usr/lib/pd/extra/
- use [declare -path cyclone -stdpath cyclone -lib cyclone] to declare
the dependency on cyclone. the "-path" and "-stdpath" portions are unused in your setup (but might work for people with more straight-forward setups). the "-lib" portion will trigger the libdir loading mechanis, which will search all the paths (among them /usr/lib/pd/extra/) for cyclone/cyclone-meta.pd, and will eventually find it as /usr/lib/pd/extra/cyclone/cyclone-meta.pd - and then it will add /usr/lib/pd/extra/cyclone/ to the (canvas-local) search path.
i know that [declare -path cyclone -stdpath cyclone -lib cyclone] looks like a joke (while you are there, add "-stdlib cyclone" as well, that should be fool-proof)
fmasdr IOhannes