[PD] [PD-announce] Pd 0.42-0 test 6 available

[Miller Puckette]

I'm thinking the sys_pdexe is teh only way.  I try to avoid adding junk
to the Pd API but in this case I think it will be necessary.

cheers
Miller

On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 06:10:37PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> If there was a global sys_pdexe that was set up at the same time as  
> sys_libdir and sys_guidir, that would work.  It would just need to  
> have the platform specific info in it.  Isn't that already happening  
> somewhere?  I forget where...
> 
> I'll bet there has to be other ways too, perhaps through a shared  
> library lookup mechanism, like querying which program loaded the .so.
> 
> .hc
> 
> 
> On Dec 9, 2008, at 11:32 AM, Miller Puckette wrote:
> 
> >Hmm, this will take me some time to fix correctly - it looks like  
> >there's
> >no way for an extern to find the pd executable itself.  d'oh...
> >
> >Miller
> >
> >On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 12:21:30PM +0100, cyrille henry wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>cyrille henry a ?crit :
> >>>hello,
> >>>
> >>>i'm just trying it.
> >>>with pd~ help patch, clicking on [pd~ start pd~-subprocess.pd<
> >>>i've got an error :
> >>>error: pd~: can't stat /usr/local/lib/pd/bin/pd
> >>
> >>installing pd via autoconf / ./configure / make / sudo make  
> >>install on
> >>ubuntu (8.04) does not put the binary in /usr/local/lib/pd/bin/pd  
> >>but in
> >>/usr/local/bin/pd so, after a sudo ln -s  /usr/local/bin/pd
> >>/usr/local/lib/pd/bin/pd, pd~ help file is working great....
> >>
> >>Cyrille
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>cheers
> >>>
> >>>Cyrille
> >>>
> >>>Miller Puckette a ?crit :
> >>>>Pd 0.42-0 test 06 is out:
> >>>>
> >>>>http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/software.htm
> >>>>
> >>>>... also checked into svn:
> >>>>
> >>>>svn checkout
> >>>>https://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pure-data/trunk/pd/
> >>>>
> >>>>Main new stuff is work on "extras" - stabler pitch output for  
> >>>>sigmund~,
> >>>>more progress on pd~.
> >>>>
> >>>>cheers
> >>>>Miller
> >>>>
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