David Raleigh Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It would appear that there is no way of running or compiling any version > of lilypond on mdk7.2 [some whining and nice poetry snipped] > I hope that you have no philosophical reason to make things hard for > yourselves, and if I am totally wrong ignore and forgive me David, Compiling LilyPond is not very easy, but you should be able to do so on any reasonably recent Linux distribution. Mandrake should probably do fine. There is no RedHat issue, apart from binary incompatibility with Han-Wen's rpms for RedHat 7.0. Han-Wen is supplying those, because he happens to have that distro installed (maybe someone should show Han-Wen Debian), and RedHat does not package LilyPond for us, as opposed to Debian and SuSE. It is generally not a good idea to install foreign packages, even if they're in the same package format, eg .rpm. This means, that if you want to stay bleeding edge, you're choices are: RedHat 7.0, Debian unstable, compiling it yourself. Compiling LilyPond yourself: 1. get lilypond-1.3.119 2. tar xzf lilypond-1.3.119 3. cd lilypond-1.3.119 4. install the rpm packages mentioned in INSTALL.txt, from Mandrake 5. ./configure 6. make 7. make install If make fails, and you can fix it yourself, make a note, send an addition for INSTALL.txt. If you can't fix it yourself, send the relevant information, including the error, to this list. Hopefully we'll fix it, add new instructions to INSTALL.txt, you try again. I'll change the: Precompiled i386 RedHat RPMS are available from `ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/RedHat/'. to Precompiled RedHat-7.0 i386 RPMS are available from `ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/RedHat/'. for now. Maybe things become easier after gcc-3.0, maybe not. Greetings, Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org _______________________________________________ Gnu-music-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-music-discuss