Re: [PD-dev] path issues (was: Re: [import] doesn't seem to add pathes)

2008-03-20 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Sounds like it should be. On GNU/Linux installing in alternate locations is not well supported. But it wouldn't a ton of work to sort it out. Patches welcome :) .hc On Mar 19, 2008, at 7:41 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote: > just a small addon: > the help-browser opens relative to the pd i am cu

Re: [PD-dev] path issues (was: Re: [import] doesn't seem to add pathes)

2008-03-19 Thread Roman Haefeli
just a small addon: the help-browser opens relative to the pd i am currently running and seems not to use the (absolute) install path. which means, that pd mixes hardcoded (absolute) install path and relativ path to the binary. shouldn't it be all relative to the binary? roman On Tue, 2008-

Re: [PD-dev] path issues (was: Re: [import] doesn't seem to add pathes)

2008-03-18 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
It was coded that way. You can see the code in question here, look for INSTALL_PREFIX: http://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pure-data/trunk/pd/src/ s_main.c I am sure that if someone wrote a patch, it would be accepted. .hc On Mar 18, 2008, at 6:59 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote: > yo.. a

[PD-dev] path issues (was: Re: [import] doesn't seem to add pathes)

2008-03-18 Thread Roman Haefeli
yo.. actually my bug report was bogus, because it was not related to [import], but to how pd works on linux. it seems, that this bug was closed in the tracker, but some 'unpleasant aftertaste' remains. why are all pathes hard-coded into pd on linux, while they aren't on windows? correct me, if th