Re: Mac OS X Panther & Lilypond 2

[Mats Bengtsson]

Will Oram wrote:
> I just installed Mac OS X 10.3 ('Panther') on my computer. Lilypond 
> processes files as normal, including correct output etc. However, before 
> concluding lilypond reports it couldn't make the PS file. Checking, I 
> find that it has.

I can't see that it claims any problems to make the PS file, rather it's
that PDF file that fails, see below.

> The --verbose trace, starting at the error section, follows. Some notes:
> * 'novelletten1.ly' is my file. It was error-free when I processed it 
> last night before installing 10.3.
> * I've never encountered a .aux file for anything I've written for 
> lilypond. What's it complaining about when it demands a novelletten1.ly?

It's completely normal for LaTeX to write that warning about the
.aux file the first time you process a LaTeX document. Since lilyond
runs in a temporary directory, this will always happen.

> ...
> Invoking `ps2pdf novelletten1.ps novelletten1.pdf'dyld: gs can't open 
> library: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.6.dylib  (No such file or directory, errno 
> = 2)
> lilypond: error: `ps2pdf' failed (signal 5)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/sw/bin/lilypond", line 891, in ?
>     run_dvips (outbase, extra_init)
>   File "/sw/bin/lilypond", line 595, in run_dvips
>     ly.system (cmd)
>   File "/sw/share/lilypond/2.0.1/python/lilylib.py", line 332, in system
>     exit (status)
>   File "/sw/share/lilypond/2.0.1/python/lilylib.py", line 130, in exit
>     raise _ ('Exiting (%d)...') % i
> Exiting (5)...
> DVI output to `novelletten1.dvi'...
> MIDI output to `novelletten1.midi'...
> lilypond: warning: can't find file: `novelletten1.pdf'
> PS output to `novelletten1.ps'...
> Cleaning /tmp/@1094.0lilypond...

Here you see that it is the conversion from PS to PDF that fails.
It seems that your installation of Ghostscript doesn't work
(the script ps2pdf is part of the Ghostscript package).


   /Mats