Re: where Babel looks for binaries?

[Steven Arntson <steven@stevenarntson.com>]

Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:

> Steven Arntson <steven@stevenarntson.com> writes:
>
>>> I would say try the above, i.e. restore ob-lilypond.el and set the
>>> variable in you init file. Alternatively you could delete the
>>> ob-lilypond.elc and the do M-x byte-compile-file on the modified
>>> ob-lilypond.el, but I would not recommend mess around in libraries for
>>> customizations. 
>>
>> I reverted the change to ob-lilypond.el and did as you suggested, adding
>>
>> (setq ly-nix-ly-path "/usr/local/lilypond")
>>
>> It's now looking in the right place, but still won't tangle the file
>> when I run ly-tangle. The message in the minibuffer is:
>>
>> ly-compile-lilyfile: Searching for program: resource temporarily
>> unavailable, /usr/local/lilypond
>>
>> The use of "temporarily" is certainly intriguing! I quit out of emacs
>> and restarted, but am still getting the message.
>
> hmm ... does it work without emacs?
> did you try to use lilypond from the commandline?

Yes, it's working from there. I'm befuddled. I tried changing the path
to "/usr/local/lilypond/bin" and also "/usr/local/lilypond/usr/bin"
thinking maybe the system needed a little more guidance, but neither of
these worked.