Error "can't find absolute argv0"

[Ben Fisher]

"can't find absolute argv0"

Installing 2.6.5.1 worked perfectly on my Dell WinXP about a week ago. Loading everything worked fine, and using Lilypond from the command-line and double-clicking files worked fine. However, on my win xp laptop, Lilypond won't work from the command line.

If I try to run "lilypond test.ly" I get:

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programming error: can't find absolute argv0
continuing, cross fingers
GNU LilyPond 2.6.5
ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path:
ERROR: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path
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This doesn't have anything to do with what .ly file is fed in and it appears every time. It looks like Lilypond can't find what directory it is in.

I thought about this, and then tried running the absolute directory to Lilypond, and ... then - it worked!!!

 

If you run "lilypond test.ly" it *doesn't* work.
If you run "c:\program files\lilypond\usr\bin\lilypond test.ly" it *does* work.

 

Is Lilypond using the first argument to find out where it is? If so, this is a bad idea (at least on Windows, I don't know about *nix) and should be fixed because this behavior is not expected. At first I thought it was a bad install.

 

After all, why do you need an absolute path? Can't lilypond use relative paths to find its fonts? Including a path should be irrelevant to the way a program works.

 

I still don't understand why this issue only comes up on my laptop and not on my Dell.

 

-Ben

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