[PD-dev] help me with my DLL snafu

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, c wrote:

> what exactly is the purpose of this? maybe some crazy netboot AFS setup
> for an entire university that had a sitewide ruby or perl install but
> everyone had arch specific interpreter binaries in their $HOME/bin? i
> just don't see it...even on a multilib system, its not like theres a
> /usr/lib/ruby/i8086-hurd/bin/ruby, yet for the extensions theres
> /usr/lib64/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux and /usr/lib32/ruby/1.8/i686-linux ->
> the second platform specification is redundant and could easily be
> replaced by 'lib' or 'extra' or such...

I agree.

> the most fitting thing for pd would probably be branch-specific dirs,
> for example itd be great when running canonical it didnt bomb out
> loading externals that reference a fftw symbol or use idle callbacks,
> and likewise id rather not have stock devel try to load GUI externals
> compiled for desire_devel...etc. it got to the point i had to recompile
> externals every time i was switching pd versions (maybe version-specific
> .pdrc sections would work too...)

I agree too.

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