Re: Strange behavior of lilypond-book in self compiled install

[Francisco Vila]

On 01/10/17 19:09, Federico Bruni wrote:
> If a program behaving like another program is not the strangest thing
> you have seen, well, for me it is.
> Both musicxml2ly and lilypond-book are in fact the same program, a
> python wrapper, which looks at `basename $0' to decide who is himself. I
> still can not imagine which advantage could this provide against
> different programs really being different programs, but the reality is
> that the practice could potentially lead to a program believing he is
> something else, which does not look good.

> Everything seems to work fine on my laptop.
> As you did not provide any example, I cannot understand what's really
> going on here.
> But if the precompiled version works fine while the one run from
> source doesn't, then it's likely something wrong in your system
> configuration. What's your default python version?
>
> This is mine:
>
> $ python -V
> Python 2.7.13
Same here.

> Can you paste some example from your terminal?

I can not reproduce it just now. I uninstalled the precompiled version,
did make install from git a couple of times, uninstalled it again,
installed the procompiled version again, repeated everything a couple of
times, and it seems to work now. The exact symptoms were:

$ lilypond-book
Usage: musicxml2ly [OPTION]... FILE.xml

$ musicxml2ly
Usage: musicxml2ly [OPTION]... FILE.xml

$ which lilypond-book
/usr/local/bin/lilypond-book

$ which musicxml2ly
/usr/local/bin/musicxml2ly

$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/lilypond-book

... /usr/local/bin/lilypond-book -> /usr/local/bin/lilypond-wrapper.python

$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/musicxml2ly

... /usr/local/bin/musicxml2ly -> /usr/local/bin/lilypond-wrapper.python

If I fall again into the problem, I'll say. Thanks Federico!

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