Re: mysterious error from ly2dvi

[Mats Bengtsson]

Please run ly2dvi with the additional flag '--verbose' and
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> Thanks to the folks who attempted to help me compile Lilypond from
> source, but I gave up and installed a Mandrake RPM I found at
>   
> http://www.hklpg.org/RPM/mandrake/8.1/contrib/RPMS/lilypond-1.4.2-1mdk.i586.html
>    .
> I tried to alert Han Wen Nienhuys that the link to the Mandrake RPM on
> the Lilypond web page was broken, but my e-mail bounced back,
> because apparently my ISP (Earthlink) is on someone's blacklist. If anyone
> knows of a more recent Mandrake RPM, I'd be grateful to hear about it.
> 
> Anyhow, I installed Lilypond successfully, and now
> I'm trying to compile the following sample file:
>   \score {
>     \notes { c'4 e' g' }
>   }
> but I get an error as shown below. Can anyone suggest what to
> do about this? This is with Lilypond 1.4.2.
> 
> address@hidden Documents]$ ly2dvi -P b.ly
> Running LilyPond...
> GNU LilyPond 1.4.2
> Now processing: `/home/bcrowell/Documents/b.ly'
> Parsing...
> Interpreting music...[1]
> Preprocessing elements...
> Calculating column positions... [2]
> paper output to `b.tex'...
> 
> Analyzing b.tex...
> Running LaTeX...
> error: latex: command exited with value 256
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/ly2dvi", line 786, in ?
>     run_latex (files, outbase, extra)
>   File "/usr/bin/ly2dvi", line 607, in run_latex
>     system (cmd)
>   File "/usr/bin/ly2dvi", line 313, in system
>     error (msg)
>   File "/usr/bin/ly2dvi", line 206, in error
>     raise _ ("Exiting ... ")
> Exiting ...
> 
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