James, It looks to me like you don't have your path set up right.
You should not be in the ~/bin directory to run lilypond. Eliminate the links ~/bin/lilypond and ~/bin/maqam.ly. move samai_bayyati_arabi_qadim.ly to another directory, say ~/test-lily Change to ~/test-lily Make sure that your path contains an entry that points to the lilypond binary. From your links I can't tell where that should be. For my installation, I have the lilypond source tree in ~/lilypond, and the binary is in ~/lilypond/out/bin. I think you should make sure that you have your path set up properly by typing which lilypond If this doesn't give you a lilypond that is in the <source>/out/bin, then you're getting the wrong lilypond. Your listing causes me to think you have multiple lilypond executables -- one at /Users/samir/share/lilypond and the other at /Users/samir/my-lily-source/lilypond/lily/out. I suspect that the one you really want to use (i.e. the one you just built) is at /Users/samir/my-lily-source/lilypond/out/bin. HTH, Carl _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user