Re: Cannot locate libffi.so.6 on openSUSE Leap 42.1

[Masamichi HOSODA]

>> The downloadable version of lilypond 2.19.32 will not run on openSUSE Leap 
>> 42.1 as it is unable to find libffi.so.6, which is not installed on this OS.
>> 
>> The lilypond distribution includes this shared library in its usr/lib64 
>> directory. But the installer script only creates a lilypond wrapper start 
>> script referencing usr/lib and not usr/lib64:
>> 
>> #!/bin/sh
>> me=`basename $0`
>> #export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home/andro/lilypond/usr/lib"
>> export 
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home/andro/lilypond/usr/lib:/home/andro/lilypond/usr/lib64"
>> exec "/home/andro/lilypond/usr/bin/$me" "$@"
>> 
>> 
>> If I add the lib64 directory as above, which contains libffi.so.6 all is 
>> well.
>> 
>> Why does the installer script omit the lib64 directory?
>> 
>> This is a defect because users of the downloadable lilypond cannot run it on 
>> openSUSE.
>> 
>> Andrew
> 
> libffi.so.6 should be on usr/lib instead of usr/lib64.
> Maybe it is a GUB's issue.
> (GUB is LilyPond official binary building tool.)
> 
> I'm creating the patch for GUB that will fix the issue.

I've created issue 4669.
http://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/4669/

I'm checking the patch.
I'll pull request it.