[Lilypond-auto] Issue 2988 in lilypond: lilypond-2.16.1-1.linux-ppc.sh Won't run on a debian squeeze ppc

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New issue 2988 by address@hidden: lilypond-2.16.1-1.linux-ppc.sh Won't  
run on a debian squeeze ppc
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2988

Reported by Philippe Neyrat:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2012-11/msg00126.html

I've try to install lilypond 2.16.1 version on a IBook G4 running Debian  
squeeze
(ppc architecture) :

$ uname -a
Linux neptune 2.6.32-5-powerpc #1 Sun Sep 23 09:29:40 UTC 2012 ppc GNU/Linux

but get an error : the script asked for a ppc architecture :

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$ sh lilypond-2.16.1-1.linux-ppc.sh

lilypond installer for version 2.16.1 release 1,
powerpc build.
For a list of options, abort (^C) then do:
sh lilypond-2.16.1-1.linux-ppc.sh --help


Warning: this build is not optimized for your architecture;
please install a ppc build instead.

Press C to install the program anyway (not recommended),
E to only extract the program files, or any other key to exit.
read: 92: Illegal option -s
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I try then to search in the script an found that there was a test line 71 :

if test "$arch" != "powerpc"; then

I've tried to replace this "powerpc" by "ppc", but finally have this new  
error :

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...
Making /home/<USER>/lilypond
Creating script /home/<USER>/bin/lilypond
Creating script /home/<USER>/bin/lilypond-wrapper.python
Creating script /home/<USER>/bin/lilypond-wrapper.guile
Creating script /home/<USER>/bin/uninstall-lilypond
Untarring lilypond-2.16.1-1.linux-ppc.sh
bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
tar: Child died with signal 13
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
...
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Replacing "powerpc" by "ppc" wasn't the good thing to do I guess.
But I cannot do more and hope this will help you to understand what happens.
On the repositories of my Debian, only 2.12.3 version of lilypond is  
available,
that's why I wanted to have a recent verson...

Hope this will be fixed soon.

Thanks a lot for this awesome program.