[PD] gem installation on mac os 10.3.9

[rene beekman]

iohannes,
thanks for the quick reply


From: IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>
> i guess the first thing is that you should remove the ".pd_darwin" 
> from the -lib flag: "-lib Gem.pd_darwin" will try to load 
> "Gem.pd_darwin.pd_darwin" (on osX; on linux it would be 
> Gem.pd_darwin.pd_linux)

ooops - that's not what it should do....

>> i've tried double quotes, same result
>> is there a way to make pd accept a path with a space in the name???
>
> this problem is rather with your operating system.
> try to escape the space like "Application\ Support"

this looks to me like max-message style escape codes instead of OS 
syntax
in any case, just tried this:
-lib "/Library/Application\ Support/Pd/Gem"
and it renders the error:
"/Library/Application\\: can't load library

the path in the terminal is "/Library/Application Support/Pd/" (___with 
"")
cd "/Library/Application Support/Pd/" in the terminal gets me there.
with a .pdrc that looks like this:
-lib "/Library/Application Support/Pd/Gem"
the error is:
"/Library/Application: can't load library

any other suggestions?
i could of course always move everything into a path that doesn't have 
a space in the name, but i would prefer to have it installed in 
Application Support as that is where it belongs...

thanks again

rene