On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 6:56 AM Mats Bengtsson <matsboxergr...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On 2022-03-28 12:02, Jogchum Reitsma wrote:
>
> 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 <han...@xs4all.nl>
> Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@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.
>
> I just tried doing a similar soft link in Ubuntu and I get exactly the
> same error message, so it's most likely not OS related.
>
Just a wild guess. Do you have ~/bin/lilypond in your path?
Carl
