[Pd] Loading externals in Linux

[mik]

hi

i think it depends on where pd itself is: if it's in /usr/local/bin it 
will check /usr/local/lib/pd/extra, but if it's in /usr/bin it will look 
  in /usr/lib/pd/extra. just add /usr/local/lib/pd/extra to your path 
and it will always be checked.

m

Chuckk Hubbard schreef:
> BTW, I also tried [declare] with an absolute path, naming "-lib
> comport" specifically, and it wouldn't load.
> 
> On 11/5/06, Chuckk Hubbard <badmuthahubbard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello.
>> I'm once again trying to control my school's Moog with Pd, this time
>> going with the serial port on my new laptop.
>> I downloaded and compiled the [comport] external.  I moved the file
>> comport.pd_linux to /usr/local/lib/pd/extra.  If I open the
>> comport-help file, which I moved to the same folder, it opens fine.
>> However, if I start a new patch and add a [comport] object, it is
>> unable to load.  Why does [comport] not load, while [expr] and its
>> cousins do?  Does Pd not check /usr/local/lib/pd/extra?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Chuckk
>>
>> -- 
>> "Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to
>> work hard at work worth doing."
>> -Theodore Roosevelt
>>
> 
> 

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