#490 [pd-gui-rewrite] [declare -stdpath] expands relative to patc

[Anonymous]

It seems, that a [declare -stdpath] of pd-gui-rewrite expands the search pathes relative to the patch's location instead of relative to pd's installation location.

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

An example patch is always very helpful, especially if it triggers the problem every time that it is run. Ideally the example patch would have only enough objects to cause the problem, but nothing else.

[Roman Haefeli]

I don't quite see how a patch can help debug the problem, since a patch containing any

[declare -stdpath <libdir-name>]
[<object_from_libdir>]

would expose the problem. More critical is the location of the patch, since - as I already said - the flag -stdpath seems to expand the searchpath relative to the patch's path instead of relative to pd-gui-rewrite's install location.

Anyway, I attach the patch.

And here the -verbose output, when patch is located in /home/roman:

tried /home/roman/declare_-stdpath_pd-gui-rewrite_bug.pd and succeeded
tried /home/roman/../extra/ext13/wavinfo.l_i386 and failed
tried /home/roman/wavinfo.l_i386 and failed
tried ../extra/wavinfo.l_i386 and failed
tried /home/roman/../extra/ext13/wavinfo.pd_linux and failed
tried /home/roman/wavinfo.pd_linux and failed
tried ../extra/wavinfo.pd_linux and failed
tried /home/roman/../extra/ext13/wavinfo/wavinfo.l_i386 and failed
tried /home/roman/wavinfo/wavinfo.l_i386 and failed
tried ../extra/wavinfo/wavinfo.l_i386 and failed
tried /home/roman/../extra/ext13/wavinfo/wavinfo.pd_linux and failed
^ this indicates, that [declare] appends the value from the flag -stdpath to the patch's path '/home/roman' instead of the pd-gui-rewrite's install location, which is in /home/roman/pd-svn/pd-gui-rewrite/

tried /home/roman/wavinfo/wavinfo.pd_linux and failed
tried ../extra/wavinfo/wavinfo.pd_linux and failed
tried /home/roman/../extra/ext13/wavinfo.pd and failed
tried /home/roman/wavinfo.pd and failed
tried ../extra/wavinfo.pd and failed
tried /home/roman/../extra/ext13/wavinfo.pat and failed
tried /home/roman/wavinfo.pat and failed
tried ../extra/wavinfo.pat and failed
wavinfo
... couldn't create

[Roman Haefeli]

sorry, couldn't figure out how to attach a file. here's the patch declare_-stdpath_pd-gui-rewrite_bug.pd :

#N canvas 309 548 453 272 10;
#X declare -stdpath extra/ext13;
#X obj 6 55 wavinfo;
#X obj 7 10 declare -stdpath extra/ext13;
#X text 68 38 <- loads in pd < pd-gui-rewrite \, if 'ext13' is installed
to <pd-location>/extra;
#X text 66 75 <- does not load in pd-gui-rewrite \, since the -stdpath
does not search relative to the pd installation location (i.e. <pd-gui-rewrite-location>)
\, but relative to the (i.e. this) patch's location.;