From: Georg Holzmann grhPD@gmx.at Date: 2007/01/29 Mon PM 02:21:59 EST To: Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@eds.org CC: pd-list@iem.at Subject: Re: [PD] general libdir question The problem is, that canvas-local search path really tread each path as local to the canvas-path ( see line 1561 in g_canvas.c). So if you add e.g. /usr/local/lib/pd/extra/iemmatrix, it will search for this path, but local to the canvas path - so if I started Pd from /home/me it will search in /home/me//usr/local/lib/pd/extra/iemmatrix !

Is this a feature or a bug of Pd ?

I would say it's a bug: I would expect that if the first character of the path is a slash, it's an absolute address, otherwise it's relative to the canvas path. So "/usr/local" is absolute but "usr/local" is relative to the canvas path. In Windows there's also the problem of specifying drives as in "C:/pd", so it's necessary to look for a letter followed by a colon followed by a slash in the first three characters of the path. And then there's double slashes for networked drives...

Martin