[PD-dev] I have 3 broken installs [was: Re: double precision Pd: .patch files, tests and benchmarks]

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Sounds like -noplugins would be a good idea, but it does not exist.  None of
those flags will disable plugins in the user folders (~/pd-externals).

You shouldn't need a Recent Files plugin any more with 0.43.4, its included on
all platforms.  But maybe its not as good as the plugin version?

.hc

On 02/22/2013 06:26 PM, András Murányi wrote:
> Ah! Today I've accidentally managed to reproduce my "Signaling watchdog..."
> problem and narrow the problem to Recent Files plugin 0.1. It works with
> version 0.2, so good-bye to a one-year annoyance. (
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3473145&group_id=55736&atid=478070
> )
> Just one question: the problem didn't go away with -noaudio -nostdpath
> -noprefs -nostartup. Shouldn't these flags prevent loading startup plugins
> as well?
> 
> András
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 9:01 PM, András Murányi <muranyia at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> 2011/10/6 Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 6, 2011, at 12:19 PM, András Murányi wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> Do you have access to an ARM
>>>>>> machine?  If not, I could probably get one online with ssh access, if
>>>>>> that's
>>>>>> useful.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've mailed Joe White with the question if he can patch the code for
>>>>>> libpd and check performance on ARM. He has done some extremely popular
>>>>>> RjDj apps and needed to optimize for them as well. Think it would be
>>>>>> good anyway to keep in touch with libpd users and app programmers
>>>>>> about this topic, even though we're in an early stage with it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes definitely, we should let everyone who wants to be get involved.
>>>>>>  I am just saying with need a development platform to start with.  Once
>>>>>> that's nailed down, we can deal with more issues, like porting to libpd,
>>>>>> dealing with externals that could be either 32-bit or 64-bit, etc.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I setup a nightly build on the macosx106-x86_64 and called it
>>>>>> pd-double.  Andras and r33p, if you are listening, could you run this build
>>>>>> on your 64-bit boxes also?  All you need to do is:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ~pd/auto-build
>>>>>> cp -a pd-extended pd-double
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Listening now.
>>>>>> I did:
>>>>>> $ cd ~pd/auto-build
>>>>>> $ sudo cp -a pd-extended pd-double
>>>>>> What's next? Shall I try patching or rather pull IOhannes's  sources?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> If you have the run-automated-builder script in a cron job, that is all
>>>>> you have to do.
>>>>>
>>>>> .hc
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ah, so tomorrow a single and double precision build will automatically
>>>>> be made? Cool.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, as I was busy with my life (buying a flat) these days, and I
>>>>> couldn't follow the list as precisely as I wished, could you advise me
>>>>> what's the current best way to roll my own double precision pd? Because I
>>>>> would like to benchmark a fully optimised one.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That would great to have those numbers. [...]
>>>>
>>>> Aaargh. I've arrived to the point where I have almost no functional pd
>>>> on my box (with the exception of l2ork).
>>>> vanilla says: "bash: /usr/bin/pd: No such file or directory" (i remember
>>>> this is a known issue... for 64bit? can it be fixed by any chance?)
>>>> extended (latest autobuild), and the fresh-built double keep on saying
>>>> "watchdog: signaling pd..."
>>>> What did I mess up? Will complete removals/reinstalls help?
>>>>
>>>
>>> You can always 'apt-get install puredata' , you can even get 'puredata'
>>> 0.43.0 for Ubuntu/Lucid from my PPA:
>>>
>>> https://launchpad.net/~**eighthave/+archive/pure-data<https://launchpad.net/%7Eeighthave/+archive/pure-data>
>>>
>>> Then you can get the pd-extended 0.42.5 release.  As for nightlies and
>>> other test builds, you can use dpkg -x to extract them anywhere, and them
>>> in place.
>>>
>>> .hc
>>>
>>
>> OK, I've installed pd from your PPA, and the same story: watchdog
>> signaling pd...
>> My question is, what's this curse on my box? Or how can I make a tabula
>> rasa so that a new install runs alrite? (Deleting .pdsettings doesn't solve
>> this)
>>
>> Thanks for the patience....
>>
>> Andras
>>
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