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Re: Lilypond 2.19.31 on openSUSE Leap 42.1
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Lilypond 2.19.31 on openSUSE Leap 42.1 |
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Sun, 15 Nov 2015 12:27:05 +0100 |
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Wols Lists <address@hidden> writes:
> On 14/11/15 11:52, Andrew Bernard wrote:
>> Anybody running this combination?
>>
>> When attempting to run lilypond, libffi.so.6 is not found:
>>
>> error while loading shared libraries: libffi.so.6: cannot open
>> shared object file: No such file or directory
>>
>>
>> I am presently unable to locate libffi.so.6 on this OS, as libffi.so.4
>> seems to be the highest version. I do understand that Leap 42.1 is very new.
>>
> Bear in mind (1) Leap is based on SLES, and I gather there have been
> various moans about software versions going *backwards*,
>
> and (2) that is very similar to the reason I changed my distro-of-choice
> from SuSE to gentoo - I was trying to run the latest lilypond on the
> latest SuSE, and half the dependencies were out-of-date :-(
>
> So you might well find that libffi 6 has been around a while but Leap
> has been a leap in the wrong direction :-(
Does anybody have an idea where the libffi dependency comes from? It's
not linked explicitly as far as I can tell.
--
David Kastrup