On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 1:28 PM Michael Käppler <xmichae...@web.de> wrote:
> Hello Werner, > thanks for your reply! > > Just to make sure we're on the same page: You don't assume that there is > variability across > different runs of the same LilyPond build on the same machine? (Aka some > kind of "non-deterministic behaviour") > That would be my understanding of "randomness", which I find a bit of a > misleading term here. > I don't think that we have any evidence that different runs on the same machine produce different output. As far as I know, we only have evidence that Werner's computer produced a different file than my computer when we were both using the same commit of LilyPond (but we have different operating systems, and different versions of all of the OS tools). > FWIW, I can confirm that 100 subsequent runs of `lilypond --eps > input.ly` on my machine > produce exactly bit-identical eps files. > > Carl and Werner, could you please: > > * patch scm/framework-ps.scm with the attached patch (go to the > directory where framework-ps.scm resides > and run `patch < epsdebug.patch`) > I will try to make this happen tomorrow. > > (Does not have to be in the source tree, you can also do a backup of > framework-ps.scm and patch your working installation) > > This patch will print the page stencils as pretty-printed scheme code to > stdout, while > normal messages go to stderr. > > * run `lilypond --eps input.ly > epsdebug.log` > > * send me the resulting log files > Carl
