Re: My Lilypond 2.18 crashes when combining slur and tie on a note

[David Wright]

On Sun 11 Mar 2018 at 20:34:42 (+0100), Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> after a long hiatus, I am now typing another piece for choir. But after I
> had finished the first voice, the document would not compile. I narrowed it
> down to the following MWE. See the comment in the second line with notes:
> 
> 
> \version "2.18"
> \language "deutsch"
> 
> SopranNoten = \relative c'' {
>         \dynamicUp
>         \time 4/4
>         \key d \major
>         \clef treble
> 
>         d=''2 cis4\!\f\< h |
>         e\> a,\! d2~( |  % remove either ~ or ( from that d2, and it compiles
>         d cis4) h |
> }
> 
> \score{
>         \SopranNoten
>         \layout{}
> }
> 
> 
> This snippet causes Lilypond to crash on my machines. Both run Gentoo Linux
> with identical versions, namely Lilypoind 2.18.2. I installed 2.18.2 on an
> Ubuntu and an Arch installation. Both of them have no problem. :'-(

More data points: neither does Debian stretch's 2.18.2, nor downloaded
versions of 2.18.2 and 2.19.80 on stretch and wheezy.

> I was afraid that my own systems are at fault. But what can I do to fix it?
> Based on the backtrace given below, can you take a guess? Perhabs it is some
> underlying library or an incompatibility between libs due to a different gcc
> version?

You could try installing a downloaded copy (I think
http://lilypond.org/downloads/binaries/
is the best place at present) of either 2.18.2 or even 2.19.80 or
higher (or both) and see if they work.

Cheers,
David.