Hi Martin, martin pi hat gesagt: // martin pi wrote:
just because it comes into my mind that moment: i recently had a path problem with pd.
is there a general agreement over where pd is installed under linux.
my installation resides in /usr/local yet /usr might be logical too.
/usr/local normally is the place, where packages get installed, that don't belong to your distribution. Debian for example never installs packages to /usr/local, so you can install your personal stuff there without files getting overwritten by Debian packages. OTOH if you install a Debian package, it should live in /usr/
Personally I tend to build most software as packages for my distribution (Debian) so I can use the dist's tool to upgrade/remove packages. And then they are in /usr
You can have externals installed in /usr/local, even when you have pd in /usr, just add /usr/local/pd/EXTERNALNAME to your path. This doesn't work for the doc/5.reference patches, though.
The correct way would be to use autoconf and let the user decide, which prefix to use with "./configure --prefix=/usr[/local] but I'm not good in autoconf, so...
ciao
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