I used Suse 6.3 for a while and went nuts trying to find the right packages to make pd-gui compile. I assume the problem is that there is no 'tk.h'? I eventually removed all the tcl/tk suse packages and just downloaded tcl/tk from www.scriptics.com and compiled it myself (actually the eventual solution was to go back to redhat, but that is not what you are asking about).

this worked for me when I upgraded to tcl/tk 8.3 from scriptics. you need to tell pd what version to link against.

find out what version of tcl and tk you have.

then, take a look at the makefile. do a search for "tk". you should find some compiling options for "-libtcl8.0" and "-libtk8.0" or something lke that.

for me, I just changed the libtcl8.0 to libtcl8.3 and the same for tk. and it compiled just fine.

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hello,

does anybody has experience with SUSE-Linux 6.1 and PD.

I have tried running Miller Puckette�s version as well as compiling guenther�s version (.3). the problem in both cases is finding the tk-related stuff

thanks

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"Karl W. MacMillan" wrote:

I used Suse 6.3 for a while and went nuts trying to find the right packages to make pd-gui compile. I assume the problem is that there is no 'tk.h'? I eventually removed all the tcl/tk suse packages and just downloaded tcl/tk from www.scriptics.com and compiled it myself (actually the eventual solution was to go back to redhat, but that is not what you are asking about).

starting from suse 6.0, i had the same problems - pd > 0.26 did not compile and the precompiled versions did not work. I upgraded my machine from suse 6.0 to 6.3 (via yast) and then pd-gui crashed leaving the pd thread running like crazy and not reacting either to pd-watchdog or kill -9 ...

recently i installed suse6.3 from scratch on a new machine and, surprise, surprise, the compiled pd (millers version) run like a charm... seems that just upgrading suse does not correct the broken tcl-tk headers.

norbert

It's normal forthe "obj" directory to be empty; if you recompile Pd it fills with ".o" files.

When Pd quits with a strange error message, I normally just search for the message in the source code to find out where things went wrong. If it isn't immediately obvious what happend (or didn't happen) you could just report the exact error message to the list and I can probably psychoanalyze it right away.

cheers Miller

On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 02:12:02PM +0200, a9508220@unet.univie.ac.at wrote:

Hello. Sorry, I seem to be more newbie than I thought.

I downloaded pd 30 again, this time the bin dir wasn't empty, but the obj dir still was. Is this normal? I have a running x and tk should be installed too. I have a SBLive and I think it's not installed properly: So my first question: How do I install my SBLive properly? (I have SUse6.2) (And I already successfully installed another sb (no Live) on another system) ANd when I start Pd (even with -nosound) I get a strange error msg saying sth like "pipe broke (32)" (I can give you the exact msg later, if that helps)

Anybody knows sth?

greetings, boris.