Re: Lilypond 2.19.31 on openSUSE Leap 42.1

[Blöchl Bernhard]

Am 15.11.2015 12:27, schrieb David Kastrup:
> 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 latest SuSE, and half the dependencies were out-of-date :-(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.

Don't wonder abut troubles, SuSE is Windows owned.