Re: Markup in \tempo Is Broken with Lilypond 2.17.21

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

> "Russell Cook" <address@hidden> wrote in message
> news:address@hidden
>> \version "2.17.21"
>>
>> \score {
>>  << \new Voice { \time 4/4 \tempo \markup { "Rubato " \concat { \smaller
>> \general-align #Y #DOWN \note #"4" #1 \medium " = ca. 76" } } s1 * 4 } >>
>> }
>>
>> Prior to version 2.17.21, the above code compiled without issues. As of
>> 2.17.21, it only compiles if the string between the \markup opener and the
>> \concat block is removed. It does not matter if the string is moved
>> into the
>> \concat block; Lilypond will consume as much memory as possible until it
>> reaches the 2 GB process cap and crashes.
>>
>> Please note, this is Lilypond on Windows. I have not yet tested this
>> code on
>> Mac OS X or Linux.
>
> Thanks for the report.  On my Windows box, the even-much-more-tiny
> example below has the same effect:
>
> {
>  \tempo \markup { "123" }
>  s1
> }

Works fine on my just-compiled version on GNU/Linux using g++ 4.7.3.
What version are the GUB-generated binaries compiled with?  Can we get
feedback about the MacOSX and/or the precompiled Linux and/or FreeBSD
(?) or other versions?

-- 
David Kastrup