[PD] R: Re: R: Re: R: Re: Externals for armv8 64 bit

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

On 2016-08-04 04:09, angelo.arcadi at virgilio.it wrote:
> Any idea about why does this happen?

yes.
pd will search a few standard paths, some of them being global others
being tight to your pd installation.
e.g.:

 /usr/local/lib/pd-externals/
    will be searched by any Pd installation (wherever it is installed;
any version; any flavour: Pd-extended, Pd-vanilla, and probably even
Pd-l2ork) run as whatever user

 ~/.local/lib/pd/extra/
    will be searched by any Pd installation (wherever it is installed;
any version; any flavour: Pd-extended, Pd-vanilla, and probably even
Pd-l2ork), BUT ONLY for the current user.

 ${PDINSTANCE}/extra/pd/
    will be search for any user, but only by the Pd installation in
${PDINSTANCE}

the last one means: if you have a Pd instance that lives in /usr/local
(as is the default when you compile Pd yourself), it will look for
externals in /usr/local/lib/pd/extra, however it will *not* look for
them in /usr/lib/pd/extra/.

otoh, all the pd-libraries in Debian (and derivatives) are compiled for
the Pd that comes with the distribution, which means that the they go to
/usr/lib/

there are three ways to fix this:
- use the Pd from your distribution (it will search in /usr/lib/pd/extra)
OR
- add /usr/lib/pd/extra to your search-path
OR
- if you don't use /usr/local/lib/pd-externals (i don't know of anybody
who does) you could make it a symlink to /usr/lib/pd/extra.


the last one is probably the easiest to enable all system-installed
pd-libraries for any Pd installement on your system run by any user.

it might give weirdo warnings though, if you ever want to use the system
installed Pd - nothing tragic, just the odd "duplicate 'foo' library
found" warning when opening the help-browser.

fgmasdr
IOhannes


PS: totally OT, but would it be possible to use a mail-client that
properly sets the "References"/"In-reply-to" headers, so your emails
appear as part of the thread?

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