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

[James Lowe]

Hello,
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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?

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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