Re: compile error: kpsexpand not found

[Mats Bengtsson]

kpsewhich and kpsexpand are standard programs in the teTeX distribution
and should be available in your PATH just as much as the tex and latex
commands, for example. I've got the impression that some distributions
put these commands in a separate package, for some weird reason.
Anyway, you will need the programs both during compilation of LilyPond
and in run-time.

   /Mats

Edward Sanford Sutton, III wrote:
>   When building lilypond from CVS, I run ./autogen.sh 
> --with-kpathsea-include=/usr/share/texmf/include/ --with-kpathsea-lib=/usr/
> share/texmf/lib/ as one of the steps. Configure and make proceed just fine. 
> As my normal user, my path also includes /usr/share/texmf/bin/ in it which 
> avoids configure stating 'WARNING: Please consider installing optional 
> programs:  kpsewhich' and make failing because it cannot find kpsexpand.
>   Once I run make install as root, kpsexpand isnt found (root has a path of /
> usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin). Is adding 
> kpsexpand to root's path the preferred way to properly resolve this build 
> error? The end of make install's output is included below to help point out 
> the section of the install phase (would more of the output be helpful?) I 
> can't recall always having this issue until some of the last few CVS 
> versions.
> Thanks again,
> Ed Sutton 
>
> if [ -f out/lilypond.nexi ]; then chmod a+w out/lilypond.nexi; fi
> /usr/bin/python ../../scripts/lilypond-book.py -I  -I ./out -I../../input 
> -I ../../input/tricks/ -I ../../input/regression/ -I ../../input/test/ 
> -I ../../input/tutorial/ -I /home/mirror176/downloads/src/multimedia/
> lilypond/CVS/lilypond/mf/out/  -I /home/mirror176/downloads/src/multimedia/
> lilypond/CVS/lilypond/mf/out/ --output=./out --format=texi --verbose 
> --process="lilypond-bin -I ./input/test -e '(ly:set-option (quote 
> internal-type-checking) #t)'" --process='true' lilypond.tely
> lilypond-book (GNU LilyPond) @TOPLEVEL_VERSION@
> lilypond-book: error: `kpsexpand \$TEXMF' failed (127)
> lilypond-book: error: The error log is as follows:
> sh: line 1: kpsexpand: command not found
> make[2]: *** [out/lilypond.nexi] Error 1
>
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