Re: [lily4jedit-user] LilyPondTool refuses to honour PATH

[Bertalan F. (LilyPondTool) <lil...@or...>]

I agree, though unfortunately I very rarely run linux, so usually I have 
no idea about these bugs.
Historically convert-ly had to be run using python, and it must be run 
like that on windows.

Bert

John Mandereau wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to make LilyPondTool find all LilyPond binaries only by
> relying on the PATH, so as long as I don't excessively play with PATH I
> run the same LilyPond version whether I call lilypond or convert-ly from
> JEdit or from a terminal.  For this purpose, I set as empty the field
> "Path to LilyPond binary" in LPT settings.
>
> However, it seems impossible to make this work, as I get error messages
> that say "Cannot run program "/lilypond"", or when I try to run
> convert-ly from the toolbar button "Cannot run program "/python"".
>
> Even worse, if I set the correct path to my LilyPond installation in LPT
> settings, that is "usr/local/bin", I get an error "Cannot run program
> "/usr/local/bin/python"" when trying to run convert-ly from the toolbar.
>
> By the way, I don't understand why LilyPondTool forces using Python to
> call convert-ly, which is not the good way to go if LilyPond was
> installed from a package on lilypond.org, because in this case
> convert-ly is a wrapper written in shell on GNU/Linux.
>
> Note that I don't want to mess with making symlinks; I think that LPT
> should work almost out-of-the-box (i.e. works immediately after having
> configured LPT settings), and for this purpose honouring the PATH and
> shebangs of different wrapper scripts (which differ depending on whether
> LilyPond has been installed by local compilation, the distro package
> manager or lilypond.org package) is the good way to go.
>
> Best,
> John
>   
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