Re: Running 2.23.7 on Linux

[Jogchum Reitsma]

Op 28-03-2022 om 07:29 schreef Kevin Pye:

(OpenSUSE Leap 15.3 to be precise)

So I've downloaded 2.23.7 and untarred into ~/Software/lilypond-2.23.7, created a symbolic link from ~/Software/lilypond-2.23.7/bin/lilypond to ~/bin/lilypond, and get the following...

> ~/bin/lilypond --version
GNU LilyPond 2.23.7 (running Guile 2.2)

Copyright (c) 1996--2022 by
Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
and others.

This program is free software.  It is covered by the GNU General Public
License and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it
under certain conditions.  Invoke as `lilypond --warranty' for more
information.

> ~/bin/lilypond x.ly
GNU LilyPond 2.23.7 (running Guile 2.2)
Uncaught exception:
Throw to key misc-error with args ("primitive-load-path" "Unable to find file ~S in load path" ("ice-9/boot-9") #f)Cannot exit gracefully when init is in progress; aborting.
Aborted (core dumped)

(with the same result whether the file exists or not).

However...

> ~/Software/lilypond-2.23.7/bin/lilypond x.ly
GNU LilyPond 2.23.7 (running Guile 2.2)
warning: cannot find file: `x.ly'
fatal error: failed files: "x.ly"

So it works if run directly from the installation directory, but not via a symbolic link.

Any ideas?

Kevin.

Hi Kevin,

I would throw this question on the opensuse-support list., since it's more OS-related than lilypond specific,I would think.

I don't have the expertise to tell what goes wrong here, but it could be something with relative paths, which are different in case one starts from another point in the file system.

I'm on Opensuse Tumbleweed, and there the version of lilypond is kept reasonably actual.

regards, Jogchum