Re: Cannot install lilypond on a shared Hostmonster server

[David Wright]

On Sat 11 Jun 2016 at 12:47:40 (+0000), Mike wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > 
> > "No" isn't an answer to "which version of gs runs, LP's or the system's?"
> 
> :)
> I was answering to the second question, after setting that env variable
> manually and rerunning lilypond.
> 
> Anyway, I think we are getting somewhere, thanks.
> Whichever gs I invoke *directly* on the resulting .ps, I get a .pdf with no
> errors. Be it
> 
> ~/lilypond/usr/bin/gs
> 
> or
> 
> /usr/bin/gs
> 
> So something happens when gs is invoked via ~/bin/lilypond, which makes it
> behave as if I were running ~/lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond (which I'm not).
> 
> [~]# cat ~/bin/lilypond
> #!/bin/sh
> me=`basename $0`
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home1/myusername/lilypond/usr/lib"
> exec "/home1/myusername/lilypond/usr/bin/$me" "$@"

As there are lots of potential runnables called "lilypond", it might
be worth typing directly into a shell:

$ bash
$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home1/myusername/lilypond/usr/lib" \
    exec "/home1/myusername/lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond" source-file.ly

just to make sure it's picking up the correct ones.

Cheers,
David.