[PD] VERY strange OSX PDP install problem

[Pall Thayer]

I give my iMac DV SE (400 Mhz G3) boiled lambs heads, rotten shark and 
Brennivin and it performs like a brand new G5.

slimboyfatboyslim wrote:
> hi,
> 
> As I remember, I came across with similar problem before but since it's  
> a long time ago, I can't recall exact what's happening.
> 
> Mine was related to ImageMagik, but yours should be sth related to  
> libtiff (may be wrong version)
> 
> hopefully you'll get sth from here
> http://www.george-graphics.co.uk/pixiewiki/cgi-bin/wiki.pl? InstallingOnOSX
> 
> BTW, mine is Asian mac.
> 
> May be you should feed american macs with burgers instead of pizza. I  
> give my mac some rice everyday.
> 
> Cheers,
> SFS
> 
> On 7 Mar 05, at 1:02 PM, derek holzer wrote:
> 
>> Dear PD-listers,
>>
>> This might not be the first time I've said it, but I SWEAR I'm not  
>> crazy!!! ;-)
>>
>> Here's the deal: I've been sucessfully installing PDP for OSX 10.3+  
>> users now for over a half a year using these instructions:
>>
>> http://umatic.nl/INSTALL.txt
>>
>> Essentially, install the Mac developers tools, then X11User package,  
>> TclTkAqua-8.4.4 and PureData-0.37.1_MacOSX-(0.2.5)-TclTk8.4, followed  
>> by unpacking the pdp_pidip_osx.tar.gz in the / directory.
>>
>> On every machine I've installed on in Europe, this is sufficient.
>>
>> However, on every machine I've tried it on the last couple months in  
>> the US, it doesn't work! Here's the error, consistant every time:
>>
>>
>> dyld: /usr/local/bin/pd can't open library: /sw/lib/libdl.0.dylib  
>> (No  such file or directory, errno = 2)
>> pd_gui: pd process exited
>> Trace/BPT trap
>>
>> Is there something different about American Macs that I need to  
>> know!?! All US machines in question were OSX 10.3.7 or 10.3.8, to the  
>> best of my knowledge. Is it possible that something got dropped by  
>> Apple in the latest 10.3 versions?
>>
>> And, of course, how to fix? I assume that installing "dlcompat" with  
>> Fink would fix it, but that is really another big step in an  
>> already-complicated install process that leaves most Mac folks  
>> bewildered!
>>
>> CC'd above are a couple "test cases" that haven't worked out yet.  
>> Please include them in all replies. Thx!
>>
>> best,
>> derek
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl
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>> -unpromising"
>>
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