Re: lilypond scm compilation errors

[James]

Hello,


On 19 November 2013 18:45, thomas <address@hidden> wrote:

> lilypond 2.16.0
>
> 'lilypond' with no arguments gives this:
>
> GNU LilyPond 2.16.0
> ;;; note: auto-compilation is enabled, set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0
> ;;;       or pass the --no-auto-compile argument to disable.
> ;;; compiling /usr/share/lilypond/2.16.0/scm/part-combiner.scm
> ;;; WARNING: compilation of
> /usr/share/lilypond/2.16.0/scm/part-combiner.scm
> failed:
> ;;; ERROR: Syntax error:
> ;;; unknown location: source expression failed to match any pattern in
> form when
> ice-9/psyntax.scm:1407:32: In procedure expand-macro:
> ice-9/psyntax.scm:1407:32: Syntax error:
> unknown location: source expression failed to match any pattern in form
> when
>
> Similar errors when adding one of your example files
> as a command-line argument.
>
> 'guile /usr/share/guile/2.0/ice-9/psyntax.scm' gives
> no errors.
>

Just out of interest, what happens if you run lilypond directly from the
/bin directory in the liypond dir, rather than say just running anywhere
from a (presumably) defined $PATH statement?


>
> Your help would be appreciated, but please don't ask
> me to try 2.16.2.  It would not build.
>

What does that mean?

Get 2.16.2 from here

http://lilypond.org/website/download.html

James