[PD] import and search paths - 0.43 on debian

[Lorenzo Sutton]

On 16/02/12 16:03, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> On Feb 15, 2012, at 3:14 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
>
>> On 14/02/12 18:49, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>> On Feb 14, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
>>>
>>>> I know this has probably often been debated but...
>>>>
>>>> I can't seem to understand the logic for which [import] fails with an error e.g.:
>>>>
>>>> [import]: ERROR: can't load library in monlib
>>>>
>>>> and doesn't for others.
>>>>
>>>> This is on debian with libraries installed from respective packages, and are all in /usr/lib/pd/extra
>>>>
>>>> I may be missing something about the behaviour of [import] but the apparently herratic behaviour makes understanding this hard.
>>>>
>>>> Of course all the libs could be imported by prefixing them such as [osc/packOSC] but then opening the help patch won't find [udpsend] which should then be [iemnet/udpsend] etc. having a single [import iemnet osc] would make much more sense. If it worked.
>>> You can include all the libraries you want in a single import statement, that's the preferred way to do it, i.e. [import moonlib motex Gem osc]
>>>
>>> Now that you've fixed the typo, what's the error?
>>
>> As I said this seems to be erratic - at least to me for the moment - so for moonlib specifically e.g.
>>
>> [import]: ERROR: can't load library in moonlib
>>
>> Same goes e.g. for osc.
>>
>> On the other hand if I try to import Gem [import Gem] it works.
>>
>> One interesting thing i "discovered" for the errors mentioned above is that if I also import (before) libdir they work. Maybe this is the requirement I wasn't understanding about the import process?
>>
>> [import libdir moonlib osc]
>>
>> gives:
>> libdir loader 1.9
>>     compiled on Jul 21 2011 at 03:17:08
>>     compiled against Pd version 0.43.0.
>> [import] loaded library: libdir
>> [import] loaded library: moonlib
>> [import] loaded library: osc
>>
>> Ciao
>> Lorenzo.
>> PS: BTW I wouldn't have started a thread based on a single error with a typo  although I can see it might have been misleading ;)
>
> Sounds like you are using 0.42 preferences with 0.43.  Delete or move your ~/.pdextended file and [import moonlib] should work fine.
Indeed there was a ~/.pdextended file which I removed, but I still get 
the error, while it works with [import libdir moonlib]

Lorenzo.
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> .hc
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