Re: Unbound variable: parse-terse-string

[Trevor Daniels]

Carl, you wrote Saturday, August 23, 2008 12:11 AM

> I have had no problems, so I don't really know what to tell you.  However,
> let me give you some thoughts.

> 1.  Check scm/lily.scm.  Make sure it has scm/predefined-fretboards.scm
> listed as one of the files to include, after fret-diagrams.scm

This was the problem - thanks.  I had to copy scm/lily.scm and
scm/harp-pedals.scm from git.  Strange, as scm/lily.scm in
origin/master has had predefined-fretboards.scm in the include
list since 7 Aug, just after 2.11.55-2 was tagged.

Even stranger, after copying it in from git I then deleted the
installation files and reinstalled.  This time it was correct
(apart from scm/harp-pedals which was added after the 2.11.56
GUB).  I had earlier tried re-installing several times but
the problem persisted.

This is either a general problem with Vista, or a problem
local to my particular installation.  It is the third time
something like this has happened.  The common feature seems
to be that an old version of a file seems to be retained
somehow and placed in the new installation.  Something to
watch.

> 2.  Check  ly/declarations-init.ly.  Make sure that the "\include
> predefined-fretboards.ly" line comes at the end of the file.

This was fine.

> It may be that the rest of us are using non-prebuilt systems,

I think that is so.  Certainly none of you uses Vista !!

> so there's
> something in the GUB that doesn't work with the fretboard code.

No - the GUB has always been OK.

> Let me know if none of this helps.

Very helpful - thanks.

> Carl

Trevor



On 8/22/08 2:56 PM, "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Carl
>
> I'm having difficulty running the NR through lilypond-book.  It fails in
> rhythms.itely on the first fretboard example.  It's been failing in the 
> same
> way for a couple of earlier releases and I was hoping a later release 
> would
> fix it, but it still fails with 2.11.56 binary, so I've decided it's time 
> to
> investigate.  As no one else has reported a difficulty I'm assuming it's
> something local to my installation.
>
> If I pick out the first fretboard example from rhythms.itely, the one
> starting on line 1425, and try to compile it I get the following error 
> when
> the \include "predefined-guitar-fretboards" statement is executed:
>
> Processing `D:/Users/Trevor/Leisure/Music/LilyPond/Tests/test.ly'
> Parsing...C:/Program
> Files/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/ly/predefined-fretboards-init.ly:46:
> 14:
> In expression (parse-terse-string terse-definition):
> C:/Program
> Files/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/ly/predefined-fretboards-init.ly:46:
> 14:
> Unbound variable: parse-terse-string
>
> I've checked scm/predefined-fretboards.scm in my installation, and it
> appears to define parse-terse-string correctly.
>
> Any idea what might be wrong, or what I might check next?
>
> Trevor