Re: -dgui option dropped in 2.24 - vanishing log file.

[Richard Shann]

On Tue, 2023-04-04 at 11:03 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-04-04 at 11:32 +0200, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> > Le mardi 04 avril 2023 à 10:29 +0100, Richard Shann a écrit :
> > > The situation on Windows without lilypond-windows.exe is even
> > > worse
> > > than I thought - the option -dlog-file no longer generates the
> > > log
> > > file
> > > into the prescribed place - instead the log is splashed onto the
> > > terminal box (which then vanishes when the typesetting is
> > > finished).

Sorry - this seems to have been noise on my part - I've just been re-
running LilyPond 2.22 and 2.24 under Denemo and the log files are being
generated as usual, and only the loglevel message in the terminal.
I can't reproduce the problem.
Richard Shann



> > > It means no error reporting to the unlucky Windows users of
> > > Denemo.
> > For me, -dlog-file still works. Do you have a reproducer?
> 
> I've just run lilypond.exe from a "Windows Power Shell" in the
> lilypond
> bin directory targetting a file on the user's Desktop. It *did*
> indeed
> generate a log file with the -dlog-file option, the file appearing in
> the bin directory where the executable was launched. No stderr
> appeared
> in the terminal.
> 
> The documentation on -dlog-file doesn't specify where the file will
> appear in the case that a full path is not given, but previously run
> from g_spawn_sync it appeared in the same directory as the lilypond
> source. It doesn't appear there now, nor in the bin directory (this
> is
> under the user's home directory), nor (given my limited abilities
> searching on Windows) anywhere else.
> 
> I should mention that the -dgui was a complete red herring here - I
> mistakenly thought Denemo was depending on it to capture the log
> output
> but in actual fact "-dlog-file filename" is always passed, the only
> thing Denemo has to do is append the ".log" and then open it to find
> the error locations.
> 
> It is, of course still working under Unix - the log file appears
> under
> the /tmp/DenemoXXXX directory where the LilyPond source is written by
> Denemo.
> 
> Thank you for looking into this!
> 
> Richard
> 
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