[L2Ork-dev] Potential Gem bug?

[Ivica Bukvic]

Thank you, IOhannes. As a point of clarification, this affects pd-l2ork
(1.x) but not Purr-Data (2.x). Also, Gem is compiled from source and no
other pd version is installed, so I am unsure why there should be any
binary incompatibility.

Best,

Ico

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On Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 05:35 IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:

> hi,
>
> On 14.04.19 17:48, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
> > IOhannes et al.,
>
> i'm just back from easter hols. sorry for the delay.
>
> >
> > I just checked out the latest Gem (0.94 branch) by doing:
> >
> > git clone https://git.code.sf.net/p/pd-gem/gem pd-gem-gem
> >
> > When starting pd-l2ork, it segfaults with the following backtrace. Any
> idea
> > what may be wrong? Is this a stable branch?
>
> yes, it's a stable release.
>
> however, Gem does some magic to add it's own path to the search-paths of
> Pd (if it is not already added), and while doing so it might hit a
> binary incompatibility between purr-data and Pd.
>
> Gem will use the safer "add-to-path" message to "pd", if it detects a
> compatible version of Pd (comparing the output of sys_getversion()
> against (0,47)). this seems to fail with purr-data, so it falls back to
> calling "namelist_append" to append the path to the "sys_searchpath"
> variable.
>
> probably jonathan can shed some light why this crashes.
>
> >
> > [submodule "Gem"]
> > path = Gem
> > url = git://git.code.sf.net/p/pd-gem/gem
>
> i'd suggest using https://git.iem.at/pd/Gem as upstream (or
> https://github.com/umlaeute/Gem).
> i still mirror to sourceforge for legacy reasons, but who knows...
>
> fgamsdr
> IOhannes
>
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