ouch, this is a bug in that case. On my dolist to check it out... cheers M
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 06:47:50PM -0400, marius schebella wrote: > hi roman, > > thanks for bringing this one up :). just tested it on OSX and here is > what I got: it has some effect, but not as supposed. It extends the path > relative to the directory of the pdpatch (and not as stated in the help > "relative to Pd"). > in your case: it seems your testpatch resides in > /home/roman/testpatch97.pd. therefor [declare -stdpath extra/mrpeach] > extends the searchpath to /home/roman/extra/mrpeach. > so all the lines that contain "tried /home/roman/extra/mrpeach/..." are > a result of the declare object. > > The behaviour is definitely not as written in the docs, but it kind of > makes sense to make relative declarations always relative to the file > location as opposed to the pd binary. > > so you can decide what exactly the bug is, the wrong behaviour or the > wrong documentation. > > regarding the "relative to what?" question, I think both behaviours > could be useful (rel to patch and rel to Pd). Maybe "declare -stdpath" > should actually be "declare -relpath" (relative to the patch) and > "declare -rel2pdpath" (relative to the pd binary), but then is the > directory of "pd binary" really the directory that all paths should be > relative to? or as some other people already suggested, make it relative > to the directory that holds the "bin" and the "extra" (and the "src") > folder. > > marius. > > > Roman Haefeli wrote: > > hi all > > > > i have [tcpserver] from mrpeach installed in: > > > > /usr/local/lib/pd/extra/mrpeach/tcpserver.pd_linux > > > > and i have a patch with: > > > > [declare -stdpath extra/mrpeach] > > > > [tcpserver] > > > > > > however, [tcpserver] doesn't instantiate. as verbose output i get: > > > > tried /home/roman/extra/mrpeach/tcpserver.l_i386 and failed > > tried /home/roman/tcpserver.l_i386 and failed > > tried /usr/local/lib/pd/extra/tcpserver.l_i386 and failed > > tried /home/roman/extra/mrpeach/tcpserver.pd_linux and failed > > tried /home/roman/tcpserver.pd_linux and failed > > tried /usr/local/lib/pd/extra/tcpserver.pd_linux and failed > > tried /home/roman/extra/mrpeach/tcpserver/tcpserver.l_i386 and failed > > tried /home/roman/tcpserver/tcpserver.l_i386 and failed > > tried /usr/local/lib/pd/extra/tcpserver/tcpserver.l_i386 and failed > > tried /home/roman/extra/mrpeach/tcpserver/tcpserver.pd_linux and failed > > tried /home/roman/tcpserver/tcpserver.pd_linux and failed > > tried /usr/local/lib/pd/extra/tcpserver/tcpserver.pd_linux and failed > > tried /home/roman/extra/mrpeach/tcpserver.pd and failed > > tried /home/roman/tcpserver.pd and failed > > tried /usr/local/lib/pd/extra/tcpserver.pd and failed > > tried /home/roman/extra/mrpeach/tcpserver.pat and failed > > tried /home/roman/tcpserver.pat and failed > > tried /usr/local/lib/pd/extra/tcpserver.pat and failed > > tcpserver > > .... couldn't create > > > > > > it seems, that [declare -stdpath] is completely ignored. do i oversee > > something or is [declare -stdpath] broken? > > this is with pd-vanilla 0.41 on ubuntu hardy (without any ~/.pdrc nor > > any other preference file) > > > > i'll post a bug report, if someone can confirm it, but i would like > > someone else to confirm it first, since i am a bit cautious with > > bugreports about declare, since there's lots that someone can (me) do > > wrong when testing it. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > > Der fr?he Vogel f?ngt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: > > http://mail.yahoo.de > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pd-dev mailing list > > Pd-dev@iem.at > > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-dev mailing list > Pd-dev@iem.at > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev _______________________________________________ Pd-dev mailing list Pd-dev@iem.at http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev