[PD] import and search paths - 0.43 on debian

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Feb 17, 2012, at 6:49 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:

> 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]

What about just [import moonlib]?

What does this should you on your machine:
ls -l /usr/lib/pd-extended/startup/

.hc


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