Issue 1714 in lilypond: Build error regarding mf2pt1 with latest texlive (2011) and lilypond

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New issue 1714 by brownian.box: Build error regarding mf2pt1 with latest  
texlive (2011) and lilypond
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1714

Reported by Marc Payne,
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2011-06/msg00506.html :

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Hi there.

I haven't found any references to this problem on the mailing lists or
elsewhere, so I hope my input is useful.

On my Arch Linux system, fully up-to-date, with the latest texlive in Arch's
testing repo, I get the following error when trying to build lilypond 2.14.1
from source:

"Sorry, I can't find the 'mf2pt1' preload file; will try 'plain'.This is
MetaPost, version 1.504 (kpathsea version 6.0.1)"

I am left with an mpost prompt.

To hack around the problem, I had to make a minor change to
scripts/build/mf2pt1.pl (line 429) in addition to the patch provided by Arch
(http://goo.gl/5o1xs):

- execute_command 1, ("mpost", "-mem=mf2pt1", "-progname=mpost",
+ execute_command 1, ("mpost", "-mem=../../mf2pt1", "-progname=mpost",

Obviously this isn't a proper fix, but it allowed lilypond to compile and  
run.

If you need more info, I'll be glad to provide it.

Thanks! :)
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