On Jan 3, 2012, at 2:20 PM, Colin Campbell wrote: > On 12-01-02 09:15 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: >> Graham Percival<graham<at> percival-music.ca> writes: >> >>> On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 08:43:05PM +0000, Carl Sorensen wrote: >>>> I have made one change to the spec files (the location of netpm >>>> on lilypond.org has changed), and I did a couple of manual >>>> downloads, so I'm not sure yet that GUB is ready to build >>>> out-of-the-box. But I have demonstrated that I can get all the >>>> way through it. >>> Eh? I regularly build GUB out-of-the-box on lilydev [*]. What >>> exactly do you think you need to do? >> Well, I tried building GUB on 11.04, unsuccessfully (I have a file that >> kept a record of everything I did, if anybody is interested). >> >> Then I tried on lilydev in a virtual machine, and was also unsuccessful. >> I didn't keep a good record of what happened at that time. >> >> So then I tried with a fresh copy of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I was able >> to work everything out and get it to build. I will probably try to >> summarize the efforts in the miscellaneous part of the CG. >> >>> In particular, what's this >>> netpbm thing? >> The source for netpbm on lilypon.org is >> http://lilypond.org/download/gub-sources/netpbm-patched/ >> netpbm-patched-10.35.tar.bz2. >> >> The source entry in gub/gub/specs/netpbm.py is >> http://lilypond.org/download/gub-sources/netpbm-patched-10.35.tar.bz2 >> >> When the download doesn't succeed, no error is thrown. So as long as you >> have the file when it comes time to extract it, you can go ahead. But if >> the file isn't there, you end up with an error. >> >> I've made a patch that fixes it and will send it to you. >> >
I decided to download GUB and I think I've compiled everything (it ran for several hours and did not complain). I have no clue how it works, though. Is there any documentation beside the README? The thing I understand least are the patches - are the patches in the patches file hand-written or auto-generated? Cheers, MS _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel