[PD] compile pd on ubuntu 5.10

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Apr 1, 2006, at 3:52 PM, João Miguel Pais wrote:

>> The above problem was caused because the patches to Pd core were  
>> not applied before compiling. You need to "cd packages && make  
>> patch_pd" before compiling to make sure all the required patches  
>> are included.
>
> thanks for the reply. I tried what you said, but it just provokes  
> more mistakes or questions which I don't even know how to answer, I  
> just said "y" to everything. Here is a transcript, in case you  
> think it might be necessary - which it might not, due to the next  
> point you raised.
>
>
>> Also, it will take a lot of manual tweaking unless you use the  
>> same version of Pd-core as the Pd-extended build system  
>> (currently, its on 0.39.2).
>
> ok, then how do I get the "correct" version? to get everything I  
> just followed the instructions given on the http://puredata.info/ 
> docs/developer/Debian page. Which until now it was the nearest to  
> ubuntu that could be found, I think. I thought that once these were  
> documented, they would be the right steps to do.

> [If anyone's interested I can even make a direct ssh connection  
> with someone that could compile this on this system and let him work.]
> <make-patch_pd.txt>

This is actually quite helpful for getting the bugs worked out and  
the problems with the documentation fixed up. I added some more info  
to the bottom of this page:

http://puredata.org/docs/developer/Debian

To the "Checking out..." and "Building" sections.

.hc

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