On 01/28/2010 10:26 AM, Heinz Wiesinger wrote: > On Thursday 28 January 2010 02:41:28 D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > >> On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Chris Cannam wrote: >> >>> Also, of course, you might _not_ want to look in either lib32 or >>> lib64, especially if both exist... >>> >> Yeah, that is kind of a tricky issue. I have /usr/lib, /usr/lib32 and >> /usr/lib64 here. /usr/lib64 is a symlink to /usr/lib, and /usr/lib32 is >> there for all the random legacy crapola that doesn't work in 64-bit for >> whatever reason. >> >> Searching lib64/ would be harmless here, since it's the same as lib/, but >> that probably isn't a safe bet for a good practice to perform across all >> Linuxdom. >> >> The suggestion about looking at the LADSPA_PATH environment variable is >> sound enough, but I don't have that set myself in an out of the box setup. >> That suggests leading down a road where we have some "Could not find your >> LADSPA thingummies, please set this environment variable" dialog, and then >> get massive uproar from userland about the horribly confusing dialog >> upsetting our »realities« about something or other, because the word >> "environment variable" needs to be translated to what it truly is >> (impactulescent dinglefarffle, obviously), and yadda yadda blah. >> >> The best thing to do does not seem particularly clear to me. >> > FWIW, if LADSPA_PATH is not set on your distro by default, this is most > likely > a bug in the ladspa_sdk package of your distro and should be reported and > fixed. > Even the ladpsa core utils need this variable set. For example "listplugins" > doesn't work without that variable. > > Grs, > Heinz > DSSI_PATH also doesn't exist by default either, both dssi and ladspa would have to find and install the path environment variable on first use but it doesn't seem like a common thing. The ordering of the paths to search is the secret to correct path discovery as rosegarden stops searching on the first correct path found. Regards Dave P
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