[GEM-dev] loading Gem should add path/to/Gem to search path?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Apr 5, 2011, at 3:05 AM, IOhannes zmölnig wrote:

> On 04/04/2011 11:11 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>> Currently there are some abstractions shipped with Gem in the Gem/  
>> dir,
>> but if you load Gem, it'll find Gem/Gem.pd_linux, and then never add
>> Gem/ to the search path so that its possible to load the abstractions
>> without a 'Gem/' prefix.
>>
>> How about adding Gem/ to the searchpath when Gem is loaded? I think
>> gridflow does this and it seems to work well there.
>>
>
> actually Gem does this as well (at least it should).
> the trick is, that it has to find s_stuff.h at configure time to  
> enable this feature (as it depends on this header for inclusion) [1]
>
> all the logic is done in Base/GemSetup.cpp


 From my Pd-extended point of view, not finding s_stuff.h is an error,  
and the build should stop.  Here's my fix:

http://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pure-data?view=revision&revision=15062

.hc



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