[PD] GRiPD and shell don't play well together

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Tue Nov 28 20:40:04 CET 2006


On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, John Harrison wrote:

> When I run pd with GRiPD library loaded, the shell external doesn't ever 
> finish and a couple of calls to it eventually completely hang Pd. This 
> is without the GRiPD library actually doing anything...just loaded. The 
> GRiPD library seems to play well with other externals and the shell 
> external works fine with everything except GRiPD.

This is most likely related to a unix feature called SIGCHLD.

> I am hoping this is an easy fix in the shell source code, as I can't 
> seem to successfully build the GRiPD module so I am using the ancient 
> .pd_linux binary included with its source code.

Edit Makefile.Linux and remove the -Werror

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