Re: Cannot install lilypond on a shared Hostmonster server

[Mike]

> IIRC it's a compatibility issue. I think the LilyPond wrapper script
(usually ~/bin/lilypond)  has to set
> the right path to the local Lilypond gs. 
> Basically, if LilyPond invokes the system gs it's often the wrong version.

The wrapper looks good to me:

#!/bin/sh
me=`basename $0`
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home1/myusername/lilypond/usr/lib"
exec "/home1/myusername/lilypond/usr/bin/$me" "$@"

[~]# ls -l /home1/myusername/lilypond/usr/lib | head
total 18432
drwxr-xr-x  7 myusername myusername    4096 Jun  5 03:32 ./
drwxr-xr-x  7 myusername myusername    4096 Mar 17  2014 ../
drwxr-xr-x  3 myusername myusername    4096 Oct  6  2013 ghostscript/
drwxr-xr-x  3 myusername myusername    4096 Oct  6  2013 gio/
-rwxr-xr-x  1 myusername myusername    1030 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 myusername    6752 Mar 17  2014 libasprintf.so.0.0.0*
-rw-r--r--  1 myusername myusername    1016 Mar 17  2014 libdb-4.7.la
[~]#


I appreciate your help... and I admire your persistence!