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Re: convert-ly and lilypond-invoke-editor missing gettext
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Jonas Hahnfeld |
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Re: convert-ly and lilypond-invoke-editor missing gettext |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Aug 2022 22:13:04 +0200 |
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Evolution 3.44.3 |
> Am Mittwoch, den 17. August 2022 um 13:13:44 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Orm
> Finnendahl:
> > Hi,
> >
> > after upgrading from lilpond 2.19 to 2.23, lilypond-invoke-editor and
> > convert-ly stopped working.
> >
> > In both cases I get
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "~/bin/../libexec/convert-ly", line 24, in <module>
> > import gettext
> > ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gettext'
> >
> > I installed python-gettext on my systemwide python installation but it
> > seems lilypond gets shipped with its own python3.10 binary and invokes
> > that.
Thanks for reporting. On my system, I see an error even earlier because
it cannot find the python3.10 binary. Did you move the libexec/
directory to where the wrapper script was looking for it?
On Wed, 2022-08-17 at 15:11 +0200, Orm Finnendahl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found the reason: In my installation the ~/bin folder was symlinked
> to the bin folder of the lilypond installation and that threw it
> off. The following change to the second line of the convert-ly and
> lilypond-invoke-editor scripts fixes it to facilitate symlinks:
>
> change
>
> root="$(dirname $0)"
>
> to
>
> root="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")/.."
>
> That should be backwards compatible and work in any circumstance.
Unfortunately the -f flag is not defined by POSIX, so it won't work on
macOS. I'll look for a portable solution, in the meantime tracked as
https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6406
Jonas
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