[PD] prefered way to install PD

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> pd-devel is branched away from this trunk (in a branch called 
> pd_devel_0_39 (or so))

just devel_0_39

> i was referring to the CVS version of pd-devel. probably there is even 
> an autoconf build system for pd-devel in CVS, but i doubt whether it is 
> still maintained.

There is not, but I wouldn't hate one. I don't know how long I'll keep 
using scons: it seems like too much to learn for almost no benefit over 
"make". However, I'll stick with scons until I have enough reasons to 
switch back to "make".

Here's one reason to not use scons: it claims that I don't have Tcl 8.5; 
then I open config.log, I see:

   gcc -c -o .sconf_temp/conftest_9.o .sconf_temp/conftest_9.c
   gcc -o .sconf_temp/conftest_9 .sconf_temp/conftest_9.o -ldl -ljack
     -lasound -lm -ltcl8.5

   /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ltcl8.5

So, I paste the 2nd commandline straight in the terminal, and there, it 
compiles without any error.

This means that gcc is ignoring the following environment variable:

   LIBRARY_PATH=/home/matju/lib

Which it will only ignore if it's just not there - so maybe scons is 
removing it. In any case, scons doesn't have my permission to remove 
LIBRARY_PATH from the environment.

And then, i've had conflicts (crashes?) between pd devel and my new 
tcl.pd_linux if it's compiled with a different tcl, but at the moment I 
can't reproduce the problem.

Besides, devel_0_39 doesn't need to be linked to tcl server-side; only 
t_main.c and t_tkcmd.c are using libtcl, and t_*.c are the client side. 
But somehow many versions of pd over the years link tcl and tk on the 
server side. I remember that in OSX it was the reason why GridFlow's [#out 
x11] couldn't work, because libtk embedded a customised libX11 that wasn't 
fully compatible with the standard libX11. Well, it still can't work on 
OSX because that linkage problem is still there.

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