On Wed, 2022-07-13 at 23:00 +0200, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le 13/07/2022 à 20:26, David Sumbler a écrit : > > Thank you for that. Yes, I should have noticed that the contents > > of > > the tar file were not source code. As it is, though, I'm not > > entirely > > sure what to do with it - I guess that I put it all in a folder > > somewhere and then make a link to bin/lilypond. > > > You just extract it somewhere and it becomes usable as > > /.../lilypond-2.23.10/bin/lilypond file.ly > > If you want to invoke it as "lilypond file.ly" without typing > the full path, you have to add the /.../lilypond-2.23.10/bin > directory to your PATH. One way to do so is to add this line > to your shell startup file (probably ~/.bashrc): > > export PATH=/.../lilypond-2.23.10/bin:$PATH > > That said, if you're using Frescobaldi, this is not needed. > Go to Edit > Preferences > LilyPond Preferences and add the > new version, providing /.../lilypond-2.23.10/bin/lilypond as > the executable.
I don't use Frescobaldi; I normally edit Lilypond files in Emacs. I moved the 2.23.10 folder to my home folder. I tried making soft and hard links in my $HOME/bin folder to $HOME/lilypond-2.23.10/bin/lilypond, but for some reason I couldn't get it to run, even though $HOME/bin is the first item in my PATH. I haven't yet fathomed out why this was, but I worked around it by adding a direct reference to the folder as you suggested. A more serious problem (for me) is that Emacs could no longer find Lilypond mode. So I moved the new Lilypond to /usr/local/lilypond/usr/. Emacs can now uses Lilypond mode, but can't compile a file - it produces reams of messages (after much processing time), mostly of the ;;; note: source file /usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/2.23.10/scm/lily/display- lily.scm ;;; newer than compiled /usr/local/lilypond/usr/lib/lilypond/2.23.10/ccache/lily/display- lily.go kind, and then exits with ERROR: In procedure apply-smob/1: Wrong number of arguments to #<boot-closure 7fa410c90dc0 (_ . _)> Compilation exited abnormally with code 1 at Thu Jul 14 17:21:52 I have spent some hours experimenting, but so far I haven't managed to get things working. David
