Help wanted for Windows troubleshooting

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Mats Bengtsson schreef:
> Yes, but he used version 2.6.x before!

I could use some help troubleshooting this windows problem.
It was seemingly introduced in 2.9.6.

What happens over here, is that the files in

   c:/Program Files/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/python/

are botched in some way. There seems to be a problem with permissions or 
somesuch, because the following commands seems to fix the problem

   cd c:/Program Files/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/python/
   rename lilylib.py botched.py
   cp botched.py lilylib.py

note that cp should be the cygwin cp command. It's also ok to do

   cat botched.py > lilylib.py

this will change

  File "c:/Program Files/LilyPond/usr/bin/convert-ly.py", line 39, in ?
    import lilylib as ly
  SystemError: NULL result without error in PyObject_Call

to

  File "c:/Program Files/LilyPond/usr/bin/convert-ly.py", line 42, in ?
    from convertrules import *
  SystemError: NULL result without error in PyObject_Call

(which is the next import statement)

So, it seems that there is some kind of filesystem access attribute that 
is set in the installer, and copied along with copy (but not with cp).

I couldn't figure out what it was, but I invite people with more 
knowledge of Windows to analyze this further.

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