The downloadable version of lilypond 2.19.32 will not run on openSUSE Leap
42.1 as it is unable to find libffi.so.6, which is not installed on this
OS.
The lilypond distribution includes this shared library in its usr/lib64
directory. But the installer script only creates a lilypond wrapper start
script referencing usr/lib and not usr/lib64:
#!/bin/sh
me=`basename $0`
#export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home/andro/lilypond/usr/lib"
export
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home/andro/lilypond/usr/lib:/home/andro/lilypond/usr/lib64"
exec "/home/andro/lilypond/usr/bin/$me" "$@"
If I add the lib64 directory as above, which contains libffi.so.6 all is
well.
Why does the installer script omit the lib64 directory?
This is a defect because users of the downloadable lilypond cannot run it
on openSUSE.
Andrew