Thanks for the replies Jan and Mats, very much appreciated. Have got Lily running now by:
Installing 1.8.0 on "Curr" from "cygwin-get-software," then updating with "Exp" option from the same site. With the overwrite bash.exe to sh.exe, ly2dvi works OK, but I'm getting "I can't find lilyponddefs.tex" when running Latex as part of lilypond-book. My lilyponddefs.tex is in ...\user\share\lilypond\1.8.0\tex Has anyone any advice here. My earlier attempt of installing 1.8.0 was with the "Exp" option at site "cygwin-mirrors-pair" and this didn't run. Checking this with the successful "cygwin-get-software" download showed the following packages missing base-files bzip2 libbz2_1 libreadline4 terminfo I also note that the "Exp" files at "cygwin-get-software" are often of later release. I can appreciate that getting all the packages correctly referenced, and trying to get all mirror sites in step must be a nightmare. From my point of view I have learned a valuable amount about the packages needed (I think I now have a reasonably definitive listing with version numbers), and also the cygwin installing process. And of course I am embarrassed I didn't remember your message on bash/sh without having to be prompted by Frederick Bron. Thanks Mats for the advice on Unix (BASH). I must try and learn BASH, I'd love to be able to set up a script file to update my 90 odd lily files for the new version number, and to change those dummy " \transpose c' " 's to " \transpose c' c' " I used to do this sort of thing with DOS batch files in days gone by. Warren Stickney Wellington, New Zealand Replying to your: ********************** I hope you saw Jan's answer, http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2003-08/msg00390.html If you are not that familiar to UNIX, you could for example do: - Start the Cygwin command window - Run the command: "cp /bin/bash /bin/sh" - Close the command window with "exit" Now, LilyPond should work the next time you start a new Cygwin window. /Mats *********************** Warren Stickney writes: > I'm getting the same > > "Running Latex...cannot create/dev/stderr: directory" > > error from my downloaded Lily 1.8.0 (cygwin). Could you try and reinstall, 1.8.1 has been uploaded and should fix this. > Comparing my files with those you mention 26 Aug, Mats, > (albeit that those files were for Heinz Wallisch's 1.6.11 installation) > the following are missing on mine: > But possibly Heinz actually received more files than was absolutely > necessary, or else 1.8.0 needs less? Cygwin is in a state of transition. The TEST/Exp release, of which lilypond-1.8.x is part, should have gone live last weekend, but it has been delayed. It seems that the most stable way of installing a package from TEST is to run setup, install the version in CURR; rerun setup, choose TEST/Exp, and install the version in TEST. That way you may get too many packages, but choosing directly from TEST you may get too few. Jan _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
