Bug or user error?

[Frank Wuest]

G'day everyone,

I've been reading this list for some time, but this is the first time I post 
something.

I'm the bass player with a bigband, and I want to use Lilypond mainly to 
convert some of the sheet music I'm getting into something more useful.

Anyway, the first installation was somewhat MacGyver-ish - I used the sources 
from the lilypond web site and the makefile from the FreeBSD ports tree, which 
was for the development branch at the time. That was because I couldn't, and I 
still can't, get lilypond to build from the FreeBSD source package - obviously 
the configure script fails to produce a proper Makefile.

But, alas, a few weeks ago the ports maintainer decided to switch to the stable 
branch, which is good for me. So I installed, dug up the old .ly files, and 
went bonkers :-)

 \version "2.14.1"
\header {
title="A Buggy Day"
composer="Gershwin Brothers and sisters"
}
%\relative c,
{ 

\time 2/2
\clef bass
\partial 4.
r8 r4 \bar "||" 
r8\f g,4.->~g,2 r8 g,4.->~g,2  

  }

This works perfectly well, but when I uncomment the "\relative c,", 
something breaks. With more notes following, the whole thing goes way down low, 
way beyond the hearing range. 8-o

Now of course I'd like to know whether this is just a mistake I made, or if I 
found a bug.

Regards,
Frank