Re: cannot fing absolute argv0 in lilypond 2.18

[Phil Holmes]

"Nicolas Maldonado" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
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> I found a problem in lilypond 2.18 when used with lilypond-book; I'm with
> windows vista; lilypond-book generates .ly scripts, but doesn't compile 
> them
> into .pdf neither .ps format for a latex file. I found an similar bug, the 
> 697
> in the bug list
>
> Thanks
>
> D:\Music\lytex>lilypond-book --output=dir --pdf lilybook.lytex
> lilypond-book.py (GNU LilyPond) 2.18.2
> Reading lilybook.lytex...
> Running `latex' on file `c:\users\nics\appdata\local\temp\tmpdn-mty.tex' 
> to
> detect default page settings.
>
> Dissecting...
> Writing snippets...
> Processing...
> Running lilypond...
> GNU LilyPond 2.18.2
> programming error: cannot find absolute argv0
> continuing, cross fingers
> ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path:
> ERROR: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path
> Linking files...
> Compiling D:\Music\lytex\dir\lilybook.tex...
> Writing `D:\Music\lytex\dir\lilybook.tex'...

Could you check your PATH variable, and add the path to the lilypond 
executable if it's not there?

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Phil Holmes