Re: Emacs lilypond-mode or possibly Bash glitch

[Tim McNamara]

On Mar 7, 2009, at 10:45 AM, James E. Bailey wrote:

> On 07.03.2009, at 17:29, Tim McNamara wrote:
>
> > When I try to compile a .ly file in lilypond-mode, it fails with  
> > the message:
> >
> >
> > -*- mode: compilation; default-directory: "~/Desktop/Downloads/ 
> > Music Charts/Lilypond Charts/Dead Tunes/Days Between/" -*-
> > Compilation started at Sat Mar  7 10:22:25
> >
> > lilypond /Users/tim/Desktop/Downloads/Music\ Charts/Lilypond\  
> > Charts/Dead\ Tunes/Days\ Between/Days\ Between.ly
> > /bin/bash: line 1: lilypond: command not found
>
> is lilypond in your path? Does emacs know about your path? In my  
> ~/.emacs, I have
> (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "elisp" (getenv "HOME")))
> (setq exec-path (split-string "/Users/jamesebailey/Applications/ 
> LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/ 
> bin:/usr/sbin" path-separator))
> (setenv "PATH" (mapconcat 'identity exec-path ":"))
> (setenv "MANPATH" "/Users/jamesebailey/share/man:/usr/share/man:/ 
> usr/X11R6/man:/man")
> (setenv "INFOPATH" "/Users/jamesebailey/share/info:/usr/local/info:/ 
> usr/local/share/info:/usr/share/info")

Compilation is still not working with those additions; the problem  
seems to be in Bash rather than in Emacs or LilyPond.  Your fix for  
viewing the PDFs does work, though, so that's nice.  Thanks for  
that!  Adding:

  /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin

and

  /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/MacOS  (which is there the  
lilypond executable lives inside LilyPond.app)

to $PATH in .bashrc and in my .emacs doesn't resolve the problem,  
even though "which lilypond" now returns the correct response in the  
shell.  I'll have to ponder this some more.  My skills at this are  
rusty because it's so rarely necessary to fiddle with things at this  
level.