[PD-dev] I have 3 broken installs [was: Re: double precision Pd: .patch files, tests and benchmarks]

[András Murányi]

2011/10/6 Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>

>
> On Oct 6, 2011, at 12:19 PM, András Murányi wrote:
>
>
>>
>>>> Do you have access to an ARM
>>>> machine?  If not, I could probably get one online with ssh access, if
>>>> that's
>>>> useful.
>>>>
>>>> I've mailed Joe White with the question if he can patch the code for
>>>> libpd and check performance on ARM. He has done some extremely popular
>>>> RjDj apps and needed to optimize for them as well. Think it would be
>>>> good anyway to keep in touch with libpd users and app programmers
>>>> about this topic, even though we're in an early stage with it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes definitely, we should let everyone who wants to be get involved.  I
>>>> am just saying with need a development platform to start with.  Once that's
>>>> nailed down, we can deal with more issues, like porting to libpd, dealing
>>>> with externals that could be either 32-bit or 64-bit, etc.
>>>>
>>>> I setup a nightly build on the macosx106-x86_64 and called it pd-double.
>>>>  Andras and r33p, if you are listening, could you run this build on your
>>>> 64-bit boxes also?  All you need to do is:
>>>>
>>>> ~pd/auto-build
>>>> cp -a pd-extended pd-double
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Listening now.
>>>> I did:
>>>> $ cd ~pd/auto-build
>>>> $ sudo cp -a pd-extended pd-double
>>>> What's next? Shall I try patching or rather pull IOhannes's  sources?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If you have the run-automated-builder script in a cron job, that is all
>>> you have to do.
>>>
>>> .hc
>>>
>>>
>>> Ah, so tomorrow a single and double precision build will automatically be
>>> made? Cool.
>>>
>>> Also, as I was busy with my life (buying a flat) these days, and I
>>> couldn't follow the list as precisely as I wished, could you advise me
>>> what's the current best way to roll my own double precision pd? Because I
>>> would like to benchmark a fully optimised one.
>>>
>>
>>
>> That would great to have those numbers. [...]
>>
>> Aaargh. I've arrived to the point where I have almost no functional pd on
>> my box (with the exception of l2ork).
>> vanilla says: "bash: /usr/bin/pd: No such file or directory" (i remember
>> this is a known issue... for 64bit? can it be fixed by any chance?)
>> extended (latest autobuild), and the fresh-built double keep on saying
>> "watchdog: signaling pd..."
>> What did I mess up? Will complete removals/reinstalls help?
>>
>
> You can always 'apt-get install puredata' , you can even get 'puredata'
> 0.43.0 for Ubuntu/Lucid from my PPA:
>
> https://launchpad.net/~**eighthave/+archive/pure-data<https://launchpad.net/%7Eeighthave/+archive/pure-data>
>
> Then you can get the pd-extended 0.42.5 release.  As for nightlies and
> other test builds, you can use dpkg -x to extract them anywhere, and them in
> place.
>
> .hc
>

OK, I've installed pd from your PPA, and the same story: watchdog signaling
pd...
My question is, what's this curse on my box? Or how can I make a tabula rasa
so that a new install runs alrite? (Deleting .pdsettings doesn't solve this)

Thanks for the patience....

Andras
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