Bug 1213615

Summary:	SuperCollider does not see supercollider-sc3-plugins when installed
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed	Reporter:	Arin Lares <arinlares>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Konstantin Voinov <kv>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Current
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Description Arin Lares 2023-07-25 05:36:24 UTC

I have just installed the supercollider and supercollider-sc3-plugins packages.  I installed SuperDirt, a quark that depends on supercollider-sc3-plugins, which could not find parts of this extension.

I ran rpm -ql supercollider-sc3-plugins and found they were installed to /usr/share/SuperCollider/SC3plugins/

They should have been installed to /usr/share/SuperCollider/Extensions/SC3Plugins to be found by SuperCollider.

I resolved this with a symlink after checking SuperCollider's documentation:
sudo ln -s /usr/share/SuperCollider/SC3plugins /usr/share/SuperCollider/Extensions/SC3Plugins

This allowed SuperCollider to see the plugins, everything worked as expected afterward.

Here's the relevant part of the documentation that mentions where the plugins should be installed: https://doc.sccode.org/Guides/UsingExtensions.html

Comment 1 Konstantin Voinov 2023-07-31 00:18:15 UTC

Hi,

Looks like that comes of this line https://github.com/supercollider/sc3-plugins/blob/87fdad27b9770d265683181f3964f7f2aeea8ed4/source/CMakeLists.txt#L153

if (QUARKS)
    set(INSTALL_DESTINATION_LADSPALIST
            "share/SuperCollider/SC3plugins/LadspaUGen")
    set(INSTALL_DESTINATION_DISTRO
            "share/SuperCollider/SC3plugins")

I'm not sure if -DQUARKS=ON works here (as i can see it should grab quarks from the on-line repo).

Do we need it?

Comment 2 Arin Lares 2023-08-10 02:34:40 UTC

Apologies, I had been meaning to actually set up a test build myself to try this, but haven't had the time to sort it out. I believe if you just removed the "-DQUARKS=ON" flag it should work.

I cross-referenced Debian and Arch's packages, since they're two I can point to with the files in the "right" spot, and they seem to omit -DQUARKS=ON in their builds, and I don't think I've ever used it building from source.

SuperCollider pulls quarks from Github, yes, but they usually go in the ~/.local/share/SuperCollider/Extensions/ExtensionName directory.

Looking at the .spec file I also believe further changes will need to be made to refer to the proper directory, since this should change the location the plugins install to.

Comment 3 Konstantin Voinov 2023-08-10 08:32:40 UTC

I've made a filelist comparison without "-DQUARKS=ON" and all seems fine https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1103245

My first request was declined due an insufficient changelog and I missed a week for fix it...

(you can test the new rpm from my branch repo too https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:kill_it:branches:multimedia:apps/supercollider-sc3-plugins)

Comment 4 Konstantin Voinov 2023-08-16 19:25:47 UTC

fixed in https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1103994