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. .hc ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- “We must become the change we want to see. - Mahatma Gandhi _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
