> 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.
> Do I know if LP's symlinks are set up correctly? Not really.
>
> 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.
> 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.
Thanks
[~/lilypond/usr/lib]# ls -l
total 18432
drwxr-xr-x 7 myusername myusername4096 Jun 5 03:32 ./
drwxr-xr-x 7 myusername myusername4096 Mar 17 2014 ../
drwxr-xr-x 3 myusername myusername4096 Oct 6 2013 ghostscript/
drwxr-xr-x 3 myusername myusername4096 Oct 6 2013 gio/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 myusername myusername1030 Mar 17 2014 libasprintf.la*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myusername myusername 20 Jun 5 03:31 libasprintf.so ->
libasprintf.so.0.0.0*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myusername myusername 20 Jun 5 03:21 libasprintf.so.0 ->
libasprintf.so.0.0.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 myusername myusername6752 Mar 17 2014 libasprintf.so.0.0.0*
-rw-r--r-- 1 myusername myusername1016 Mar 17 2014 libdb-4.7.la
-rwxr-xr-x 1 myusername myusername 1387912 Mar 17 2014 libdb-4.7.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myusername myusername 12 Jun 5 03:31 libdb-4.so ->
libdb-4.7.so*
-rw-r--r-- 1 myusername myusername1016 Mar 17 2014 libdb.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myusername myusername 12 Jun 5 03:21 libdb.so ->
libdb-4.7.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 myusername myusername1009 Mar 17 2014 libexpat.la*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myusername myusername 17 Jun 5 03:31 libexpat.so ->
libexpat.so.1.5.2*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myusername myusername 17 Jun 5 03:32 libexpat.so.1 ->
libexpat.so.1.5.2*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 myusername myusername 142904 Mar 17 2014 libexpat.so.1.5.2*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 myusername myusername1069 Mar 17 2014 libfontconfig.la*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myusername myusername 22 Jun 5 03:32 libfontconfig.so ->
libfontconfig.so.1.4.4*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myusername myusername 22 Jun 5 03:21 libfontconfig.so.1
-> libfontconfig.so.1.4.4*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 myusername myusername 212768 Mar 17 2014 libfontconfig.so.1.4.4*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 myusername myusername1036 Mar 17 2014 libfreetype.la*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myusername myusername 21 Jun 5 03:21 libfreetype.so ->
libfreetype.so.6.3.22*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myusername myusername 21 Jun 5 03:31 libfreetype.so.6 ->
libfreetype.so.6.3.22*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 myusername myusername 542072 Mar 17 2014 libfreetype.so.6.3.22*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 myusername myusername 121608 Mar 17 2014 libgettextlib-0.15.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 myusername myusername1053 Mar 17 2014 libgettextlib.la*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myusername myusername 21 Jun 5 03:21 libgettextlib.so ->
libgettextlib-0.15.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 myusername myusername1069 Mar 17 2014 libgettextpo.la*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myusername myusername 21 Jun 5 03:21 libgettextpo.so ->
libgettextpo.so.0.2.0*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myusername myusername 21 Jun 5 03:21 libgettextpo.so.0
-> libgettextpo.so.0.2.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 myusername myusername 19200 Mar 17 2014 libgettextpo.so.0.2.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 myusername myusername 225824 Mar 17 2014 libgettextsrc-0.15.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 myusername myusername1067 Mar 17 2014 libgettextsrc.la*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myusername myusername 21 Jun 5 03:32 libgettextsrc.so ->
libgettextsrc-0.15.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 myusername myusername1088 Mar 17 2014 libgio-2.0.la*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myusername myusername 22 Jun 5 03:21 libgio-2.0.so ->
libgio-2.0.so.0.2105.0*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myusername myusername 22 Jun 5 03:21 libgio-2.0.so.0 ->
libgio-2.0.so.0.2105.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 myusername myusername 691688 Mar 17 2014 libgio-2.0.so.0.2105.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 myusername myusername1039 Mar 17 2014 libglib-2.0.la*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myusername myusername 23 Jun 5 03:21 libglib-2.0.so ->
libglib-2.0.so.0.2105.0*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myusername myusername 23 Jun 5 03:21 libglib-2.0.so.0 ->
libglib-2.0.so.0.2105.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 myusername myusername 916392 Mar 17 2014
libglib-2.0.so.0.2105.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 myusername myusername1077 Mar 17 2014 libgmodule-2.0.la*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myusername myusername 26 Jun 5 03:31 libgmodule-2.0.so
-> libgmodule-2.0.so.0.2105.0*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 myusername myusername 26 Jun 5 03:31 libgmodule-2.0.so.0
-> libgmodule-2.0.so.0.2105.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 myusername myusername 12272 Mar 17