From 5827aa5fe64d59d5747779f7c568b20918a743ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Neeman <joeneeman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:00:11 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Don't crash if vertical spacing is called early.

This provides some more robustness against problems of the sort that
was fixed in 64aa24acd2.
---
 lily/align-interface.cc | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lily/align-interface.cc b/lily/align-interface.cc
index f090cfd1e0..e9d47a77ec 100644
--- a/lily/align-interface.cc
+++ b/lily/align-interface.cc
@@ -240,9 +240,13 @@ void
 Align_interface::align_elements_to_ideal_distances (Grob *me)
 {
   System *sys = me->get_system ();
-  Page_layout_problem layout (NULL, SCM_EOL, scm_list_1 (sys->self_scm ()));
-
-  layout.solution (true);
+  if (sys)
+    {
+      Page_layout_problem layout (NULL, SCM_EOL, scm_list_1 (sys->self_scm ()));
+      layout.solution (true);
+    }
+  else
+    programming_error ("vertical alignment called before line breaking");
 }
 
 void
-- 
2.39.2