FreeBSD Port: pd-0.46.7

[Kevin Oberman]

Toby,

First, thanks for your effort to contribute to FreeBSD. It is appreciated.

Now, about how... the ports mailing list is a good places to talk about
port issues, especially unmaintained ports (ports with this mailing list
shown as the maintainer). But it is a bad place to send report a specific
problem or issue with a port. It is ephemeral in nature. People who might
be able to help might be too busy to read the list today... or this week,
in which case, it is archived, but probably lost to the sands of time.

Please submit a bug report to the FreeBSD bugzilla (
bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla) You will need to create an account, first, but
that means that the bu report will not be lost. An unmaintained port may
not get quick attention, but it will not get lost. And, some day, maybe
tomorrow, maybe next year, and most likely in between, it will be
addressed.

Once the bug report is submitted, if there is no response fairly quickly,
especially if it looks like you have a pretty good idea what is wrong, then
is hte time to send a note to ports asking for help. If you do so, be sure
to include a link to the report. Bug reports that include patches are most
likely to get a fairly quick response, so if you can figure out what is
wrong, go for it.

I can't make any promises, but that is the best approach I am aware of. I
have had things fixed quickly and things that stayed open for years before
being taken care of. (Reports made so long ago I've completely forgotten
them.) But they have been addressed, if not always to my complete
satisfaction.

Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com
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On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Tobias Brodel <s3377249 at student.rmit.edu.au>
wrote:

> hi,
>
> just an update on this, i have a patch which fixes the issue, please find
> it attached.
>
> cheers,
> t
>
> ps: please let me know if this is not the right way to get involved in
> ports, i've never contributed to FreeBSD before.
>
> On 01/31/16 14:47, Tobias Brodel wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>> i'm not sure if this is the right place to report bugs in ports, but i'm
>> having trouble using this package. i haven't been able to open any
>> externals, either compiled by myself or included in the package (under
>> /usr/local/lib/pd/extra). i have added the correct paths in the application
>> and restarted several times. only pd builtins can be successfully created.
>>
>> the error i'm getting is simply "expr~ ... couldn't create" in the pd
>> window.
>>
>> is this a known issue?
>>
>> cheers,
>> toby.
>>
>
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