[CM] Grace and Fomus on F 14

Ken Dawson dawsonwu at rahul.net
Tue Nov 29 09:03:57 PST 2011 

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On 11/29/2011 06:38 AM, jallan365 wrote:
> 
> I'm pretty stuck on installing Fomus (1.18) with Grace (3.7.3) on os x
> 10.6.8. 
>  using the instructions that Bill gave below 
> 
>  - get boost 1.45, untar into /usr/local/src and run ./bootstrap
>> - ./bjam install --prefix=/usr/local
>> - (though this puts things in very strange places - the whole boost
>> build & install process is very opaque to me)
>> - mv /usr/local/libboost_* lib/ (see above)
>> - mkdir /usr/local/include/boost
>> - mv /usr/local/boost/* /usr/local/include/boost
>>
>> - then untar fomus 0.1.15 into /usr/local/src
>> - ./configure --with-boost=/usr/local
>> - make install
>>
>> - make a file called 'local.conf' in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ containing the
>> line '/usr/local/lib'
>> - run ldconfig
>>
>> - start Grace and see the new Fomus in its terminal window
>> - run a fomus example from Help>Examples>Scheme>Fomus and do a
>> hokeypokey when it works! 
> 
> I've got as far as 
> 
> 
>  - run ldconfig 
> 
> but maybe because I'm not using Fedora/Ubuntu   I can't find ldconfig or an
> equivalent? I know that Fomus is installed properly (did fomus -O and the
> list of info came up)  but I'm still getting the same error message 
> 
>  
>>>>> Error: Fomus: can't find FOMUS library
>>>>> Error: don't know how to open "fomus1.ly"
>>
> 
> I'm not sure how I can get round this, frankly I'm pretty much a novice for
> all things regarding terminal. I'd really appreciate some help, Fomus is
> exactly what I need to use for my work and I feel like it's really close!
> Cheers,
> Jallan
> 
>  
> 
> Bill Sack-2 wrote:
>>
>> o.k. - i got it sorted here using a local boost and fomus and i'll
>> outline the steps here in case it helps anyone else who doesn't want
>> to wait for fedora to update boost to 1.45.
>>
>> - get boost 1.45, untar into /usr/local/src and run ./bootstrap
>> - ./bjam install --prefix=/usr/local
>> - (though this puts things in very strange places - the whole boost
>> build & install process is very opaque to me)
>> - mv /usr/local/libboost_* lib/ (see above)
>> - mkdir /usr/local/include/boost
>> - mv /usr/local/boost/* /usr/local/include/boost
>>
>> - then untar fomus 0.1.15 into /usr/local/src
>> - ./configure --with-boost=/usr/local
>> - make install
>>
>> - make a file called 'local.conf' in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ containing the
>> line '/usr/local/lib'
>> - run ldconfig
>>
>> - start Grace and see the new Fomus in its terminal window
>> - run a fomus example from Help>Examples>Scheme>Fomus and do a
>> hokeypokey when it works!
>> - write some music.
>>
>> b
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:07 PM, David Psenicka <dpsenick at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> I just compiled fomus 0.1.15 with boost 1.44 on Ubuntu and had no
>>> issues...
>>> I'll have to install fc14 somewhere and try to compile it in that
>>> environment to figure out what's going wrong.  I'm almost sure that
>>> undefined symbol has to do with the API change in boost 1.44.  I'll post
>>> a
>>> solution as soon as I figure this out.
>>>
>>> BTW the option "--with-boost=/usr/local" on the ./configure command line
>>> causes it to link with a local install of boost instead of the distro
>>> version (the boost libs are in /usr/local/lib)--on my machine it compiled
>>> against the local boost and worked properly (output a lilypond file and
>>> displayed it).  To run it I also had to export
>>> "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib".
>>>
>>> On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 14:46 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>>>
>>> AFAICT Grace does not link with fomus, I imagine it just calls the fomus
>>> executable?
>>>
>>> Grace loads libfomus.so dynamically at run time (the Grace build doesn't
>>> link with it at compile time)...  So recompiling Grace shouldn't be
>>> necessary, it should load and use whatever version of fomus is installed
>>> (and run without it if it can't find it)
>>>
>>> -David
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I just built a fomus 0.1.5 package for fc14 and there is an error when
>>> trying to run a simple example. With this freshly compiled and installed
>>> fomus I get an error just running /usr/bin/fomus with a single note .fms
>>> file. The error appears just after it prints "running LilyPond" (it is
>>> an underfined symbol in /usr/lib/fomus/lilyout.so).
>>>
>>> -- Fernando
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Mar 18, 2011, at 2:42 PM, David Psenicka wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I just noticed you're compiling fomus 0.1.12, which is old and
>>>>> doesn't have the iostreams fix...  Have you tried compiling fomus
>>>>> 0.1.15 with the distro's boost libraries and headers?  0.1.15 has
>>>>> bug fixes and should work fine with recent versions of Grace (you
>>>>> shouldn't have to recompile Grace).  If you stick with 0.1.12 then
>>>>> you'll have to have two versions of Boost on your system to run an
>>>>> old version of the software.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you are compiling against a local Boost install, make sure bjam
>>>>> installed the header files in the right place (it likes to place
>>>>> them in a directory that looks something like /usr/local/include/
>>>>> boost/boost_1_39 and they actually need to be in /usr/local/include/
>>>>> boost).  The configure script might also be confused if you have two
>>>>> versions of boost on your system, I have to try and compile against
>>>>> a local boost install to see what it's trying to do and how to make
>>>>> it find the right libraries.
>>>>>
>>>>> -David
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 14:29 -0400, Bill Sack wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> i'm trying a local install of boost 1.39
>>>>>> did ./bootstrap and ./bjam install
>>>>>> this is the output of ./configure in fomus
>>>>>>
>>>>>> checking for boostlib>= 1.35... yes
>>>>>> checking whether the Boost::System library is available... yes
>>>>>> checking for -l... no
>>>>>> checking whether the Boost::Filesystem library is available... yes
>>>>>> configure: error: Could not link against  !
>>>>>>
>>>>>> am i missing some part of installing boost? or missing a configure
>>>>>> flag?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:25 PM, David Psenicka
>>>>>> <dpsenick at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>>>> The error message has to do with Boost's iostream library which
>>>>>> changed
>>>>>>> quite a bit with version 1.44 (including the API, which would
>>>>>> cause an
>>>>>>> undefined symbol error if fomus is linking with the wrong library
>>>>>>> version)...  I think recompiling with the correct Boost library
>>>>>> headers
>>>>>>> should fix the problem.  The recent fomus release should compile
>>>>>> with Boost
>>>>>>> versions before or after 1.44 (though I haven't tested 1.46
>>>>>> yet).  I'll try
>>>>>>> compiling with boost 1.44 on my machine and see if I run into any
>>>>>> problems.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -David
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 10:18 -0500, Heinrich Taube wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> sorry its not working for you. i forwarded your message to david
>>>>>>> psenicka, perhaps he has some idea.
>>>>>>> fwiw  im using boost_1_45_0/  . i know that boost_1_39_0/ also
>>>>>> worked
>>>>>>> for me. its probably not that hard to uninstall/reinstall boost it
>>>>>>> that is actually the issue.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mar 18, 2011, at 10:04 AM, Bill Sack wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> i did try the new beta - everything seems to work great except
>>>>>> fomus.
>>>>>>>> i've done a bit more googling and discovered that this is a
>>>>>>>> longstanding (since 12/10) unresolved problem with fomus and f14 -
>>>>>>>> there's a message on the planetccrma list about it that i somehow
>>>>>>>> overlooked when it was current.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> the issue has nothing to do with Grace or cm at all - i get the
>>>>>> same
>>>>>>>> error message trying to run one of the fomus examples in the
>>>>>>>> documentation (i.e.: outside of cm).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> i still suspect that it has something to do with the version of
>>>>>> boost
>>>>>>>> but i don't have the patience to downgrade and recompile right
>>>>>> now.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> b
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Heinrich Taube<taube at uiuc.edu>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> i just tested fomus 0.1.15 in all the betas I can (osx win32 and
>>>>>>>>> ubuntu)
>>>>>>>>> using the complex "prime harmonics" example at the end of the
>>>>>>>>> example file
>>>>>>>>> you get by selecting:
>>>>>>>>>          Help>Examples>Scheme>Fomus
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> the example ran eveywhere (really fast on osx and ubuntu!),
>>>>>>>>> although on
>>>>>>>>> ubuntu i did not get the pdf viewer opening automatically with
>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>> computed
>>>>>>>>> score.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> so im not sure what the issue on your fedora, are you using the
>>>>>>>>> fedora beta1
>>>>>>>>> i made today?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Mar 17, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Bill Sack wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> i built fomus 1.15 here too and got the same crash when trying
>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>> example. i wonder if this has something to do with the version
>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>>>> boost that's packaged for f14?
>>>>>>>>>> looks like 1.39 on f 12
>>>>>>>>>> and 1.44 on f14
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> maybe i'll try a locally downgraded version of boost and see
>>>>>> what
>>>>>>>>>> happens.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> do i need to do something about the lock file or not? maybe i
>>>>>> could
>>>>>>>>>>> disable
>>>>>>>>>>> this on linux , but running two version of grace probably
>>>>>> isnt a
>>>>>>>>>>> good
>>>>>>>>>>> idea
>>>>>>>>>>> as they will both write to the preference file...
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> would it be hard to have a message echoed to the shell if
>>>>>> there's a
>>>>>>>>>> permission issue or some other conflict with the lockfile?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Mar 17, 2011, at 8:56 AM, Bill Sack wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> hello again,
>>>>>>>>>>>> i'm trying to get Fomus going with Grace on fedora 14. i've
>>>>>>>>>>>> tried the
>>>>>>>>>>>> planetccrma packages (cm-grace and fomus), and i've tried a
>>>>>>>>>>>> locally
>>>>>>>>>>>> compiled version of fomus-1.12. In both cases the programs
>>>>>> show
>>>>>>>>>>>> up in
>>>>>>>>>>>> the Grace splash screen, but evaluating any of the examples
>>>>>>>>>>>> crashes
>>>>>>>>>>>> Grace with this error echoed:
>>>>>>>>>>>> /usr/bin/Grace: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/fomus/
>>>>>> lilyout.so:
>>>>>>>>>>>> undefined symbol:
>>>>>> _ZN5boost9iostreams22file_descriptor_sourceC1Eib
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> i found an earlier message on this list from D. Phillips with
>>>>>>>>>>>> the same
>>>>>>>>>>>> error report, though in his case the problem was apparently
>>>>>>>>>>>> resolved
>>>>>>>>>>>> with a reinstall - no such luck in my case.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> thanking you in advance,
>>>>>>>>>>>> b
>>>>>>>>>>>>
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