Re: Problem doing Scheme tutorial

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip Thomas" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 10:09 PM
Subject: Problem doing Scheme tutorial


> Dear fellow-users,
>
> After failing to write what I thought should be a fairly simple
> define-music-function, I thought, this is it: Learn something about Scheme
> in a more structured way, old chap! One can only go on for so long relying
> on the (invariably kind and expert, and mostly very patient) advice from
> fellow users on this forum.
>
> I did what was told to me by the Extending manual:
>
> "1.1.1 Scheme sandbox
>
> "The LilyPond installation includes the Guile implementation of Scheme. On
> most systems you
> can experiment in a Scheme sandbox by opening a terminal window and typing
> 'guile'. On some
> systems, notably Windows, you may need to set the environment variable
> GUILE_LOAD_PATH
> to the directory ../usr/shr/guile/1.8 in the LilyPond installation. For 
> the
> full path to
> this directory see Section "Other sources of information" in Learning
> Manual. Alternatively,
> Windows users may simply choose 'Run' from the Start menu and enter 
> 'guile'.
>
> "Once the guile sandbox is running, you will receive a guile prompt:
>
> "guile>
>
> "You can enter Scheme expressions at this prompt to experiment with 
> Scheme."
>
> What I got, however, when I ran the Command Prompt and typing "guile", was
> the following:
>
> "ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path:
> "ERROR: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path"
>
> Can anyone help, please? I am running LilyPond 2.14.2 under Windows 7 
> 64-bit
> (in case that's relevant).
>
> Cheers, Philip

I'm not sure if this will fix your problem, but it looks like there's a typo 
in those instructions - now corrected in the 2.15 release.  shr in the path 
should be share.


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Phil Holmes