[PD-dev] [declare -stdlib] does not work anymore

[Roman Haefeli]

On Sat, 2016-01-16 at 20:44 -0800, Miller Puckette wrote:
> OK.. applied these.  Will vomment on one question below....
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 04:25:47PM +0100, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> > On 01/15/2016 11:12 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2016-01-13 at 00:54 +0100, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> > >> On 01/12/2016 11:56 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> > >>> On 01/12/2016 11:34 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> > >>>> i will check this immediately.
> > >>>
> > >>> actually it turns out that loading anything via it's absolute path is
> > >>> broken (and [declare -stdlib] uses this):
> > >>>
> > >>> e.g. [/usr/lib/pd/extra/zexy/zexy] fails now.
> > >>
> > >> which means that the culprit is really in the new loader code (unrelated
> > >> to [declare]).
> > >>
> > >> anyhow, attached you find two patches that supposedly fix this problem.
> > >>
> > >> 0001: does special handling for absolute paths (which was stripped out
> > >> in my loader rewrite - on purpose, but accidentally no replacement was
> > >> provided), by trying to load them first (if applicable).
> > >>
> > >> 0002: fixes the extra/ stripping/appending when generating the absolute
> > >> pathnames for stdlib/stdpath.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the fix(es). [declare -stdlib] works again for me.
> > > 
> > > Unlike specified in the help, -lib now searches  both, relative to the
> > > patch _and_ standard paths, while -stdlib only searches standard paths
> > > and is in accordance to the documentation. Is that intended?
> > 
> > i think so.
> > i cannot think of a reason why it should be different.
> > 
> Well, "-path" works differently (only relative to the calling patch).  If
> indeed "-lib" additionally searches "standard" paths it would seem more
> sensible to make it act like "-path" - that gives the user the most control.
> 
> Quite possibly I'm misunderstanding something though.  The whole path/lib
> thing has become too complicated for me...

At least, we seem to have a similar understanding. Also, I believe to
know that "-lib" used to _not_ search standard paths, but _only_
relative to the calling patch. I'm undecided whether the new behavior is
advantage, but it is different from before.

Roman
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