Re: path to lilypond executable

[Urs Liska]

Am 12.03.2015 um 09:11 schrieb Johan Vromans:
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 08:29:33 +0100
> Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Am 12.03.2015 um 01:14 schrieb Mattes:
> > > Hmm,  are you looking for the path to the current lilypond executable
> > > or the current lilypond input file?
> > > For the first '(car (command-line))'  might be all you need.
> >
> > Yes, this is what I'm looking for, thank you.
>
> Please be aware that on vanilla *ix systems this only works if the program
> is executed via a PATH search.
>
> E.g., if lilypond is in /usr/bin:
>
>    cd /tmp
>    lilypond   --> /usr/bin/lilypond
>    cd /usr/bin
>    ./lilypond   --> ./lilypond

OK, this means if the result points to "in the current dir" then I 
should prepend it with the current dir (which is easily possible with 
the tools I already have).

But I couldn't verify this actually.
I have a binary release (on Debian), installed through the install 
script. The executable is in ~/lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond (where the 
"lilypond" path is actually a symlink).

I get
=> /home/uliska/lilypond/usr/bin/lilypond
with each of the following:

cd ~
lilypond test-script.ly
cd ~/bin
lilypond test-script.ly
cd ~/lilypond/usr/bin
lilypond test-script.ly

I'm happy that the result points to the actual lily executable and not 
to the wrapper script in ~/bin.
I don't have a package installation, so I don't know if that would 
return different reults.
Could someone please try this out for me?

Thank you
Urs


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