Talking about Ghostscript, I noticed that the latest version is GPL Ghostscript 9.00 released 2010-09-17 Wouldn't it make sense to update it in the lilypond distribution to benefit from the updates and ease the integration with other authoring software like LyX?
On Dec 6, 2010, at 10:16 PM, Henry Flurry wrote: > 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 >>> >>> > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
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