Re: Issue 1717 in lilypond: Possible incompatibility with Ghostscript 9 (was: Full notes and half notes are drawn filled)

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Comment #1 on issue 1717 by address@hidden: Possible incompatibility  
with Ghostscript 9 (was: Full notes and half notes are drawn filled)
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1717

Hi Jérôme,

Are you using testing repos in Arch? I'm assuming so, since I had the same  
issue as you.

I ended up trying lilypond-git from AUR. The package failed to build,  
however, with errors regarding a perl script called mf2pt1. I eventually  
got it to build by modifying mf2pt1.pl slightly. Once built, the problem of  
black whole/half notes disappeared. The lilypond-git maintainer in the AUR  
posted a patch (texlive-2011-workaround.patch) that works for me.

I'm happy to be wrong, but I think the lilypond binary in community was  
built to work with texlive-{core,bin}-2010 from extra, rather than  
texlive-{core,bin}-2011 from testing. I just haven't tested this hypothesis  
yet.

More info can be found in issue 1714 here on the bug tracker. Maybe I'm way  
off base, but I'm fairly sure the issues are related.

Regards,

Marc