Re: lilypond --preview fails

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> On Tuesday 15 June 2004 17.24, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Erik Sandberg wrote:
> > > Invoking `gs -sDEVICE=bbox -q -dNOPAUSE titling-piece.preview.ps -c quit
> > > 2>titling-piece.preview.ps.bbox'lilypond: error: `gs' failed (status 139)
> >
> > Are you sure "gs" is in your PATH? And if so, does it really support the
> > DEVICE "bbox"?
> 
> Ah.. I ruled this out, since I believed that I had tried this with lilypond 
> 2.2.1. But after testing with 2.2.1, I can see that the same bug occurs 
> there.
> 
> The problem is not that gs doesn't support the device "bbox"; it does (at 
> least it lists it among the supported devices when I do gs -h). The problem 
> is that
> gs -sDEVICE=bbox
> gives a segmentation fault.
> (gs-gpl 8.01, 2004-01-30, debian testing)

I think that there is another problem: lilypond-bin dumps whole pages
at a time, in a different format than lilypond --preview expects them
to be.

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