The lilypond 2.1.13.41-1 version of gs was crashing in LyX.  I was able to get 
this version of gs working in a shell by setting specific environment 
variables, but I could not find a way to set these variables for LyX, so I 
could not get instant preview (or DVI output) of lilypond scores within LyX.

I was able to work around this by putting the lilypond bin path at the END of 
the path variable set in LyX -> Preferences.  Then, LyX would pick up a 
different version of gs that didn't crash.

Now it works fine.

Again, I reported the bug to lilypond developers, and hopefully in a later 
version it will be addressed.

Thanks!

Henry Flurry
Music Flash Class - a music flash card app for iPhone/iPod Touch versatile 
enough for your teaching
www.MusicFlashClass.com


On Dec 4, 2010, at 10:29 PM, Henry Flurry wrote:

> Further research shows that gs is not finding a dynamic library.  Console 
> reports:
> 
>       dyld: Library not loaded: ./bin/../sobin/libgs.8.70.dylib
> 
> I tried to soft link from lib (which contains the dyld) to sobin, but that 
> still didn't work.  gs also failed from command line.
> 
> However, if I did this in bash:
> 
> export 
> DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/Applications/_AudioMusicRelated/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
>  
> Then the gs would work from the commmand line.
> 
> But I can't find a way to tell LyX to set up the DYLD_LIBRAY_PATH for calling 
> gs.
> 
> I'm assuming that this is a bug in lilypond distribution, so I submitted a 
> bug to them.
> 
> Other ideas?
> 
> Thanks!
> henry
> 
> 
> On Dec 4, 2010, at 9:53 AM, Henry Flurry wrote:
> 
>> OK - got a bit further!
>> 
>> Changing the path variable didn't do it.  Reviewing old emails again, I see 
>> that the PATH variable can be set in the shell OR in the Lyx -> Preferences 
>> -> Paths -> PATH Prefix
>> 
>> THEN, you need to do:
>> 
>>      Lyx -> Reconfigure
>> 
>> (This was a step I was missing for a while.)
>> 
>> NOW, the lilypond example loads up without complaint.
>> 
>> BUT, I get an Apple app crash panel with the following error:
>> 
>>      "gs cannot be opened because of a problem"
>> 
>> with some problem details looking like:
>> 
>>      Process: gs [6477] 
>>      Path: 
>> /Applications/_AudioMusicRelated/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gs 
>>      Identifier: gs Version: ??? (???) 
>>      Code Type: X86 (Native) 
>>      Parent Process: dvipng [6476] 
>>      Date/Time: 2010-12-04 09:35:21.031 -0700 
>>      OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.5 (10H574) 
>>      Report Version: 6 Anonymous 
>>      UUID: 219AD32B-CD4E-46DE-A36B-439CEBBA839D  
>>      Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP) 
>>      Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000 Crashed Thread: 
>>  0 
>> 
>> Which to me suggests the problem is occurring when generating an png file.
>> 
>> This type of crash will come up when I:
>> 
>>      View -> DVI
>>      View -> HTML
>>      View -> OpenDocument
>> 
>> However, the following work fine:
>> 
>>      View -> PDF
>> 
>> Now it sounds like there is a problem with lilypond's gs itself.
>> 
>> Would you agree?
>> 
>> (I just upgraded lilypond "OS X" to 2.13.41-1, and the same symptoms occur.)
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> Henry
>> 
>> 
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