Re: (Win XP/ LP 2.8.3-1) double-click on .ly breaks paths?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

A. Deubelbeiss schreef:
> Hi there,
>
> Since I upgrode from 2.8.0 to 2.8.2 and later 2.8.3, Lilypond is 
> throwing strange fits that seem related to file paths getting lost. This 
> happens only when I double-click a .ly file; everything works perfectly 
> when I type "lilypond filename.ly" into a console window. Presumably 
> some setting has worked itself loose on this machine, but what do I need 
> to repair, and how?
>
> This is what I get when I double-click a .ly:
>
> --quote log file--
>
> # -*-compilation-*-
> Processing `F:/lily_work/ydwl.ly'
> Parsing...
> Interpreting music...
> F:/lily_work/ydwl.ly:23:16: warning: barcheck failed at: -5/16
>   \partial 16*5
>                 R16*5 R1*6 \break
> [8][16][24][32][40][46]
> Preprocessing graphical objects...
> Calculating line breaks...
> [3][6][9][12][15][18][21][24][27][30][33][36][39][42][45][46]
> F:/lily_work/ydwl.ly:109:38: programming error: Spanner `LyricExtender'
> is not fully contained in parent spanner `VerticalAxisGroup'.
>   That nev -- er meant a thing to you
>                                       __
>
> Interpreting music...
> F:/lily_work/ydwl.ly:23:16: warning: barcheck failed at: -5/16
>   \partial 16*5
>                 R16*5 R1*6 \break
>
> MIDI output to `F:lily_work.midi'...
> Track...
> Calculating page breaks...
> Layout output to `F:lily_work.ps'...
> Converting to `F:lily_work.pdf'...
> `gs -q  -dNOSAFER  -dCompatibilityLevel#1.4  -sPAPERSIZE#"a4" -dNOPAUSE
> -dBATCH -r1200  -sDEVICE#pdfwrite -sOutputFile#"F:lily_work.pdf" -c
> .setpdfwrite -f "F:lily_work.ps"' failed (1)
>
> --end quote--
>
> Typing that "failed" command line into a console (or, indeed, just 
> typing "gs") produces:
>
>   GPL Ghostscript 8.50: Can't find initialization file gs_init.ps.
>
> gs does produce a valid .pdf file, but it's 747 bytes long and displays 
> as a blank A4 page.
>
> There is a gs_init.ps in lilypond's usr/share/gs/lib.
>
> Note that the output files are saved with "wrong" filenames: not the 
> same name as the source file, but rather the name of the directory 
> containing that file (see log above). This is what makes me suspect that 
> this is related to file paths not getting properly remembered somewhere.
>
> The .log file itself is an exception, it is named as expected (same name 
> as the .ly). All these files correctly appear in the same directory as 
> the .ly.
>
> Could some kind windows-competent soul point me at the right end of the 
> computer's innards please?

I need the following information:

Can you get the logfile of the failing run, when run with either 
--verbose on the command line or the LILYPOND_VERBOSE environment var 
set to 1 ?

Unfortunately, I'm not sure how you can these options for the 
double-click invocation of LilyPond.

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