frustrated building on Red Hat 7.3

[larry]

Sorry for such a mundane question;  All I want is to print
some music.  I'm normally very good at installing from source,
but lilypond has me buffaloed.

I have a copy of Fur Elise that I downloaded from mutopia, then
hacked^H^H^H^H^H^Harranged for Flute and Viola, that I need to
make some edits on.  But I can't for the life of me get a version
of lilypond that reads it, or for that matter, goes through more
than half of the test .ly files in the respective distributions.

I have tried 1.4.15 and 1.6.7.  I have RH7.3 with (almost all)
the updates in place, plus a copy of guile-1.4.  I do this as
a mortal user, so I have to
   source ~/src/lilypond-1.4.15/buildscripts/out/lilypond-profile
and so forth.  I can, in fact, get example-1.ly to come out
of both 1.4.15 and 1.6.7.  I could adjust the header format
of Fur Elise, if I got a version that looked promising on the
test cases.  Here's an example crash:

$ ly2dvi ~/src/lilypond-1.6.7/input/opus-130.ly 
Running LilyPond...
GNU LilyPond 1.6.7
Now processing: `/home/larry/src/lilypond-1.6.7/input/opus-130.ly'
Parsing...
Interpreting music...[8][9]
Preprocessing elements... 
Calculating column positions... [3][6]
paper output to `opus-130.tex'...
writing header field `title' to `opus-130.title'...
writing header field `composer' to `opus-130.composer'...
writing header field `opus' to `opus-130.opus'...
error: 

LilyPond crashed (signal 11).Please submit a bug report to address@hidden

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/home/larry/bin/ly2dvi", line 1047, in ?
    run_lilypond (files, dep_prefix)
  File "/home/larry/bin/ly2dvi", line 549, in run_lilypond
    error ("\n\n" + _ ("LilyPond crashed (signal %d).") % signal \
  File "/home/larry/bin/ly2dvi", line 152, in error
    sys.exit (2)
SystemExit: 2
$

I'm open to any advice you can give, that doesn't involve downloading
binaries.  Thanks in advance!

     - Larry