On 09/02/16 20:55, Andrea wrote:
Pd-0.43.0 on Linux/x86_64 can't seem to find its help files.
How did you install it? (Works fine for me on Debian Wheezy, both from
packages and compiled from source, so I think this is more likely to be
a packaging problem rather than a Pd bug.)
I have the
path in ~/.pdsettings :
path1: /opt/pkg/share/doc/pd/doc
while Pd is installed in /opt/pkg/bin/ . Here's what I see in Pd's
console when trying to get help - for example - on a "float":
[snip]
So, Pd isn't even looking in /opt/pkg/share/... - path1 notwithstanding.
Pd has a separate help path.
What else does Pd need to be able to find its own help files?
From the command line (or ~/.pdrc) you can use -helppath instead of
-path, not sure what the syntax is for ~/.pdsettings (sorry).
$ pd -helppath /opt/ -verbose -stderr
[...snip...]
tried ./osc~-help.pd and failed
tried /opt/osc~-help.pd and failed
tried /home/claude/opt/lib/pd/doc/5.reference/osc~-help.pd and succeeded
(2nd line shows it looking in the argument directory, 3rd line is from
'make install' into my preferred prefix)
You could maybe create a symlink to the correct location, as the
puredata(-doc) Debian package seems to do.
Claude
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