[PD] help files path, difference between startup flag and pdsettings

[cyrille henry]

hello,
I experience a strange problem I can not understand.

for (pmpd) development purpose, I don't want to install it from deken, but use my local build.

binary are in ~/pd/git/pd-pmpd/build
help files are in ~/pd/git/pd-pmpd

when I start :
pd -noprefs -path ~/pd/git/pd-pmpd/build/ -path ~/pd/git/pd-pmpd

everything is fine.

but it did not work as expected using pdsettings.

I remove the preference file for test purpose, to start with an empty file.
I added the 2 paths.
My preference file now is :

audioapi: 1
noaudioin: False
audioindev1: 0 2
audioindevname1: sof-hda-dsp (hardware)
noaudioout: False
audiooutdev1: 0 2
audiooutdevname1: sof-hda-dsp (hardware)
audiobuf: 25
rate: 44100
callback: 0
audioblocksize: 64
midiapi: 0
nomidiin: True
nomidiout: True
path1: /home/chnry/pd/git/pd-pmpd/build
path2: /home/chnry/pd/git/pd-pmpd
npath: 2
standardpath: 1
verbose: 1
nloadlib: 0
defeatrt: 0
flags:
zoom: 1
loading: no


My problem is that the help file is not find :

tried /home/chnry/pd/git/pd-pmpd/build/pmpd.linux-amd64-32.so and succeeded
tried /home/chnry/pd/git/pd-pmpd/build/pmpd-help.pd and failed
tried /usr/local/lib/pd/doc/5.reference/pmpd-help.pd and failed
tried /home/chnry/.local/lib/pd/extra/pmpd-help.pd and failed
tried /home/chnry/pd-externals/pmpd-help.pd and failed
tried /usr/local/lib/pd-externals/pmpd-help.pd and failed
tried /usr/local/lib/pd/extra/pmpd-help.pd and failed
tried /home/chnry/pd/git/pd-pmpd/build/help-pmpd.pd and failed
tried /usr/local/lib/pd/doc/5.reference/help-pmpd.pd and failed
tried /home/chnry/.local/lib/pd/extra/help-pmpd.pd and failed
tried /home/chnry/pd-externals/help-pmpd.pd and failed
tried /usr/local/lib/pd-externals/help-pmpd.pd and failed
tried /usr/local/lib/pd/extra/help-pmpd.pd and failed
sorry, couldn't find help patch for "pmpd"

pd search only in the binary path, and in other standard paths, but not in the path declared

the solution is to add in pdsettings :
flags: -path ~/pd/git/pd-pmpd

I understand that having binary and help file in different path is not expected, but why do pd behave differently using path in .pdsettings, than using path in startup flag ?
Is that expected, or is it a bug?


pd 0.54.1, compiled from source, ubuntu linux

cheers
c