[PD-dev] Pd-installation on jenkins/debian-stable-amd64

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Feb 21, 2012, at 11:33 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

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> On 2012-02-21 17:20, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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>> I reinstalled 'puredata' on debian-stable-amd64, sorry about that, I don't know what happened there.  The build systems are mean to have the Pd-vanilla headers installed.
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> thanks.
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>> I'm happy to install packages and put apps into /Applications.  But in order to keep the systems clean for building, I will not put anything include /usr/local.
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> if you refer to my complaint about "-I/usr/local/include/pd", then i
> need to clarify:
> the pd-extended installation installs a pkg-config snippet
> "pdextended.pc" which claims that - in order to compile e.g. an external
> - - you should add "-I/usr/local/include/pd" to the compiler flags.
> either you should fix pdextended.pc to contain (e.g.) "-I/usr/include",
> or remove it alltogether.
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>> If you don't want to build against Pd-extended, then don't point to those headers.  The Makefile template points to Pd-extended on Mac OS X and Windows because Pd-vanilla does not provide headers in the standard packages.
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> 
> really?
> i remember that Pd-vanilla includes the full sources (including all
> headers) on both w32 and osx.

Pd-vanilla does provide the sources, but there are two issues:

- it does not include the include/pd/ subdir for headers

- on Mac OS X, the app has the version number in it, so using those for headers would make the Makefile dependent on a particular version of the Pd.app.

.hc

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