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Re: Poor error reporting


From: Erik Sandberg
Subject: Re: Poor error reporting
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 19:15:28 +0200
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On Tuesday 07 June 2005 11.28, Sven Axelsson wrote:
> > From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: Poor error reporting
> >
> > Does the program run to the end or does it crash in the middle?
> > I don't think there have been many changes in the printouts from
> > LilyPond, but if you have happened to trigger a bug that gives a
> > segmentation fault, then it may happen that you don't get any
> > useful information.
> >
> > If you want more help from the mailing list, please at least provide
> > a copy of the printouts from lilypond --verbose or send the complete
> > input files.
>
> Ok, I might have come off needlessly annoyed here. Sorry about that. I
> have found what casues this. It looks like some syntax errors inside a
> markup causes Lilypond to produce no output. Here's what triggered the
> error this time (trimmed to a minimum)
>
> \version "2.5.27"
>
> \header {
>     title = \markup { \fill-line {  } }
> }
> \relative c'' {
>     a b c d
> }
>
> Note the empty fill-line in the header markup.
>
> Here is the log:
>
> # -*-compilation-*-
> Processing `D:/Music/test.ly'
> Parsing...
> Interpreting music... [1]
> Preprocessing graphical objects...
> Calculating line breaks... [2]
>
> So it dies in the "Calculating page breaks" phase.

I can't reproduce it (using latest cvs / 2.5.30). I'm assuming the bug is 
fixed. Can you verify this with a newer version?

Erik




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