[PD-dev] Resolved :: Pool disappearing or not getting created

[Thomas Grill]

Hi Ben,
many thanks for your findings!
I'm still not finished with the autoconf stuff, mainly because of  
problems on OSX 10.4, but let's hope the integration into pd-extended  
will make such issues vanish.
gr~~~

Am 11.04.2008 um 20:21 schrieb B. Bogart:

> Hello all, Thomas in particular.
>
> This is really for the archives as the disapearing pool problem was
> resolved, and that is probably the same cause of pool not getting
> created in SVN flext.
>
> Let this be a lesson, when a flext external acts funny, recompile them
> all from the same flext!!!
>
> I've been using pool just to store the results of some SOM training
> data, and I'm bizzarly stuck.
>
> I was working on a patch a month ago, all was well, then I recently
> opened the same patch, and the pool objects were not visible. I did  
> not
> change anything on the system, no updates, same version of PD  
> (0.39-2),
> same flext and same pool.
>
> I've tried a bunch of stuff to resolve this but I've not gotten any
> ware. I'll start with my most recent efforts.
>
> I've removed all files in /usr and /usr/local with flext in the same,
> including directories.
>
> Then I build flext from SVN (trunk revision 9690 for the flext  
> directory)
>
> I commented out SIMD=1 to turn off SSE for this AMD64. in config.txt
>
> I added the proper paths to config-lnx-pd-gcc.txt to PD sources, made
> the flext path /usr/local, the outpath=. , installpath
> /usr/lib/pd/extra, commented out all the STK and SndObj stuff.
>
> removed all sse UFLAGS, leaving only -ffast-math left other flags to
> default.
>
> Compiling flext and pool, after build.sh pd gcc clean, seems to work
> fine, I see the binaries, I'm using -lib pool to load pool. (after pd
> gcc install for both flext and pool)
>
> PD says pool is loaded:
>
> pool 0.2.2pre - hierarchical storage object, (C)2002-2008 Thomas Grill
>
> but the pool object will not instantiate, (just the dashed line  
> border)
> and the usual console message:
>
>  pool
> ... couldn't create
>  pool test
> ... couldn't create
>
> Does the current SVN version of flext/pool still play with 39-2 or  
> only
> newer PDs? (I'm using the old PD as I know its rock stable for this
> installation).
>
> So I've downloaded the "stable" flext and pool from thomas website,  
> and
> trying again:
>
> copied the same config-lnx-pd-gcc.txt and config.txt from the SVN  
> build.
>
> starting pd again with -lib pool
>
> PD says pool is loaded:
>
> pool 0.2.1 - hierarchical storage object, (C)2002-2005 Thomas Grill
>
> making a pool object does instantiate, but is invisible. I can blindly
> click on it to get the pool properties, and connect things to it, but
> can't see the object itself.
>
> Ok, so tried removing the .pdsettings, and not using -lib pool, and
> creating a pool object, and it works! So I'll put the pdsettings  
> back in
> lib by lib to see if I can figure out what library its conflicting  
> with.
>
> Ok, it was (duh) xsample that was left over from some old flext was
> causing the invisible pool problem. Having -lib xsample messed with  
> pool.
>
> I'm sending this message just for the archives.
>
> .b.
>
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