Re: GhostScript Fail (regression 2.19.17 to 2.19.18)

[Urs Liska]

Hi Andrew(s)

Am 22.01.2018 um 23:07 schrieb Andrew Smith:

I'm getting a failure all-around on a new Arch VM I'm running in my windows machine. I'm using lyp here to make a/b version testing easier. Basically, the gs command is failing when liilypond runs it but it works just fine when I copy/paste it and run it manually.

2.19.17 works, but 2.19.18 fails. Shell info + file is below.

GhostScript system version is 9.22.

https://gist.github.com/andrewcsmith/eb17a859e62921f3ad50a4c5298628e9

This is urgent for me, as I don't have access to the old machine where this worked, and I have some libraries that use the recent font changes -- thanks a lot.

No guarantee it works for you, but I have a strong suspicion.
When installing LilyPond the normal way from the downloaded archive it creates a wrapper command "lilypond" (usually as ~/bin/lilypond).
This doesn't only call the lilypond executable but also adds
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/lilypond/usr/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

to make sure the libraries shipped with LilyPond are used and avoid such version mismatches with system libraries.
I'm not sure how lyp invokes LilyPond but you should look into this (and maybe call LilyPond directly/through a custom wrapper script).

We had to learn that with Frescobaldi too. Frescobaldi can manage arbitrary LilyPond installations, and by now it injects that library path (for the chosen LilyPond) in the invocation command.

HTH
Urs

```
address@hidden ly_test]$ lyp use 2.19.18
Using Lilypond version 2.19.18
address@hidden ly_test]$ lyp compile test.ly
Lyp 1.3.5
GNU LilyPond 2.19.18
Processing `/tmp/lyp/wrappers/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'...
warning: `(gs -q -dSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841.89
-dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
-sOutputFile=./test.pdf -c.setpdfwrite -ftest.ps)' failed (256)

fatal error: failed files: "/tmp/lyp/wrappers/test.ly"

address@hidden ly_test]$ lyp use 2.19.17
Using Lilypond version 2.19.17
address@hidden ly_test]$ lyp compile test.ly
Lyp 1.3.5
GNU LilyPond 2.19.17
Processing `/tmp/lyp/wrappers/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
```

File:

\score {
    \new Voice {
        c'4 d' e' f'
    }

    \layout { }
}

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