Re: ERROR: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path

[Jacek Gajek]

2011/7/5 Phil Holmes <address@hidden>:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Lowe" <address@hidden>
> To: "Jacek Gajek" <address@hidden>; "lilypond-user"
> <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 12:45 AM
> Subject: RE: ERROR: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path
>
>
> Hello,
> ________________________________________
> From: address@hidden
> address@hidden on behalf of Jacek
> Gajek address@hidden
> Sent: 25 June 2011 12:35
> To: lilypond-user
> Subject: Fwd: ERROR: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path
>
> In PATH I have "C:\Program Files (x86)\LilyPond\usr\bin". It is a
> correct path (the folder exists).
>
> When I type lilypond:
> GNU LilyPond 2.12.3
> programming error: cannot find absolute argv0
> continuing, cross fingers
> ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path:
> ERROR: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path
>
> I use Miktex 2.9 x64.
>
> Greetings,
>
> 2011/6/24 Phil Holmes <address@hidden>:
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacek Gajek" <address@hidden>
>> To: <address@hidden>
>> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 4:16 PM
>> Subject: ERROR: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path
>>
>>
>>> Hello, I encounter the following output, no matter how do I try to use
>>> lilypond from cmd.
>>> "lilypond-windows" drag&drop works, but I want to generate an image
>>> file (e.g. PNG) so I cannot use it.
>>> What I want to include inline sheet music in a latex document. Not
>>> interested in typing notes directly in
>>> latex. I prefer to have them rendered in PNG files and rebuild and
>>> include when necessary.
>>>
>>> C:\Users\Jacek\Desktop\test>lilypond "test.ly"
>>> GNU LilyPond 2.12.3
>>> programming error: cannot find absolute argv0
>>> continuing, cross fingers
>>> ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path:
>>> ERROR: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path
>>>
>>> I have found a lot of posts with the same problem with solutions, but
>>> I am confused what should I actually DO to get it working.
>>> Could you provide me instructions step-by-step what should I do? I
>>> mean, sth like this: click here, type this, press enter.
>>> I have tried it for 3 hours, so I am not a give-me-the-codez guy.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>>
>> A couple of questions: what do you get when you just type "lilypond"
>> (without the quote marks) on the command line?  What's in your PATH
>> statement?
>
> ------
>
> I reproduced this 'error message' on my Linux box.
>
> I downloaded the sh file and installed LilyPond and I know it works because
> I did some simple test stuff on it by creating a test.ly on my desktop and
> running via CLI while being CWD in /Desktop:
>
> lilypond --pdf test.ly
>
> All works.
>
> However if I try to run lilypond against a file in a 'relative dir' (rather
> than in the same dir) I get the same problem
>
> --snip--
>
> address@hidden:~$ pwd
> /home/james
> address@hidden:~$ lilypond --pdf ./Desktop/test.ly
> GNU LilyPond 2.14.1
> ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path:
> ERROR: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path
> address@hidden:~$ cd Desktop/
> address@hidden:~/Desktop$ lilypond --pdf test.ly
> GNU LilyPond 2.14.1
> Processing `test.ly'
> Parsing...
> Interpreting music...
> Preprocessing graphical objects...
> Finding the ideal number of pages...
> Fitting music on 1 page...
> Drawing systems...
> Layout output to `test.ps'...
> Converting to `./test.pdf'...
> success: Compilation successfully completed
> address@hidden:~/Desktop$
> --snip--
>
> Now this may be expected, as I have for the last two years used LP on a Mac
> or with Windows using the drag and drop method. I rarely if ever used LP in
> a CLI context and never on Linux until now.
>
> My path is
>
> address@hidden:~/Desktop$ echo $PATH
> /usr/lib/libfm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/james/lilypond/usr/bin/
>
> So maybe this is the same issue.
>
> Is this expected?
>
> I haven't read any documentation :) I just assumed that all I had to do was
> point to my LP bin dir and I could run it on any file as long as I gave the
> full path.
>
> James
>
> ========================================================
>
> It's not quite the same error - you don't get the lines:
>
> programming error: cannot find absolute argv0
> continuing, cross fingers
>
> However, I wouldn't expect either, personally.  I can run with relative
> directory references on word fine.
>
>
> --
> Phil Holmes
>

All fixed after I added an environment variable
GUILE_LOAD_PATH="C:\Program Files
(x86)\LilyPond\usr\share\guile\2.0.1".


Greetings -- Jacek Gajek