Re: lilypond-book runs xelatex linked against non-system libraries

[Mark Mathias]

Colin,
I couldn't find your enhancement request, so I've added this issue as:
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2471&colspec=ID

I also didn't generate a png attachment because I've never used
lilypond-book (and didn't have time to try it either).

If you celebrate Easter, I hope it is a great day for you!
Cheers,
Mark
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Joe Neeman <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Colin Hall <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 04:40:34PM -0700, Joe Neeman wrote:
> > > Consider the following lilypond-book output (version 2.14.2):
> > > lilypond-book --pdf --latex-program=xelatex -o out miriam.lytex
> > > lilypond-book (GNU LilyPond) 2.14.2
> > > Reading miriam.lytex...
> > > Running xelatex...xelatex:
> /home/jneeman/lilypond/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6:
> > > no version information available (required by xelatex)
> > > ...
> > > xelatex: relocation error: xelatex: symbol
> > > _ZNSt8__detail15_List_node_base7_M_hookEPS0_, version GLIBCXX_3.4.15
> not
> > > defined in file libstdc++.so.6 with link time reference
> > > command failed: xelatex /tmp/tmpPBb_rA.tex
> > > Child returned 127
> > >
> > > It looks like lilypond-book is running xelatex in a modified
> environment
> > > (eg. with LD_LIBRARY_PATH set). Since xelatex is not packaged with
> > > lilypond, it should be linked against whatever libraries are present on
> > the
> > > system, not the libraries that are packaged with lilypond.
> >
> > Thanks for reporting this, Joe.
> >
> > I just had a look at the lilypond-book code. It looks to me like the
> > TeX processing program is launched with a copy of the current
> > environment. As you probably know, the lilypond binary is launched via
> > a wrapper script that sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH so yes, the environment for
> > xelatex is
> > modified and not the same as the one established by your shell.
> >
> > I suspect the designers considered it the user's resposibility to
> > supply an alternative TeX processor that can cope with the lilypond
> > runtime environment.
> >
>
> If this is indeed intentional, I think the intention is wrong. Since we
> don't package TeX, we know that we are using the system TeX, and so it
> should be launched with the system environment.
>
>
> >
> > For a workaround I did some research and found this posting on
> > lilypond-user:
> >
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-03/msg00055.html
> >
> > in which Joseph Wakeling suggests a workaround of running xelatex on
> > the TeX source produced by the failed run of lilypond book. Let us
> > know if that works for you.
> >
>
> I need to run xelatex on the produced source anyway, since lilypond-book
> doesn't do that for me. However, this doesn't provide a workaround:
> lilypond-book needs to successfully run xelatex in order to determine the
> line width for producing the snippets.
>
>
> > Has xelatex ever worked for you?
> >
> > Have you updated xelatex or lilypond recently?
> >
>
> Yes, xelatex by itself works fine. Lilypond-book works fine with xelatex if
> I compile it from git (which is what I usually do). It fails when I install
> the prebuilt packages (tested with 2.14 and 2.15). By the way, this is not
> specific to xelatex; I have the same problem with normal latex, but it
> happened that the file I was working on last week needed xelatex.
>
> Could you create a wrapper script for xelatex to establish the
> > environment it needs?
>
>
> Presumably. For my personal use, I can just compile lilypond from git and
> then it just works. I really just reported it because I think that it's a
> bug and I thought it might eventually affect someone else.
>
> Cheers,
> Joe
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