Re: Cannot install lilypond on a shared Hostmonster server

[David Wright]

On Thu 09 Jun 2016 at 07:34:46 (+0000), Mike wrote:
> > When you run LP, it will ask gs to convert the file. However, which
> > version of gs runs, LP's or the system's? Will it be happy running
> > with LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home1/myusername/lilypond/usr/lib"?
> 
> No, same error I'm afraid.

"No" isn't an answer to "which version of gs runs, LP's or the system's?"

On my system, the easiest way of duplicating your error is:

Correct:

$ ~/lilypond-2.19.42.1/bin/lilypond e.ly 
GNU LilyPond 2.19.42
Processing `e.ly'
Parsing...
Interpreting music...
Preprocessing graphical objects...
Finding the ideal number of pages...
Fitting music on 1 page...
Drawing systems...
Layout output to `/tmp/lilypond-bk9TyW'...
Converting to `e.pdf'...
Deleting `/tmp/lilypond-bk9TyW'...
Success: compilation successfully completed
west!david 21:47:01 /tmp $ 

Incorrect:

$ ~/lilypond-2.19.42.1/lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond e.ly 
GNU LilyPond 2.19.42
Processing `e.ly'
Parsing...
Interpreting music...
Preprocessing graphical objects...
Finding the ideal number of pages...
Fitting music on 1 page...
Drawing systems...
Layout output to `/tmp/lilypond-NneMRs'...
Converting to `e.pdf'...
warning: `(gs -q -dSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28
-dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841.89 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH
-r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=e.pdf -c.setpdfwrite
-f/tmp/lilypond-NneMRs)' failed (256)

fatal error: failed files: "e.ly"
$ 

No difference at all.

> > Do I know if LP's symlinks are set up correctly? Not really.

I have checked them against mine and they are the same.

> > Do you yet know which distribution is running?
> 
> CentOS 6.7 (Final)
> 
> > What version of tar do
> > you have?
> > 
> > $ tar --version
> 
> tar (GNU tar) 1.23
> Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

That is pretty ancient.

> 
> > The only difference I can see at present between the symlinks that
> > work (fonts) and those that don't (libs) is that the latter point to
> > files in the same directory. tar is/has been quite buggy in the area
> > of symlinks. In all cases, the symlinks precede the targets in your
> > tar archive. I can't help wondering what goes on between the usr/lib
> > directory, the symlink and the target file during the interval while
> > the directory is being populated.
> 
> Thanks David, all, please let me know if you have any more ideas.

Just one further question: if you install the .sh file again, but using
the --prefix /tmp/whatever, and it fails as usual, what files does
/tmp/whatever/lilypond/usr/lib/ contain? Are any of them zero-length?

Cheers,
David.