On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 09:47:16AM +0200, Jonas Hahnfeld wrote: > Hi, > > Am Freitag, den 24.07.2020, 15:14 -0700 schrieb H. S. Teoh: > > I pulled lilypond sources from git today, and while trying to figure > > out a botched configure invocation, I did a git clean -x -f, and now > > INSTALL.txt doesn't exist anymore...? I did a fresh git clone from > > git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git but same thing, INSTALL.txt seems > > to have gone missing? > > INSTALL.txt is not tracked in git, but generated from texinfo sources > when running ./configure (or ./autogen.sh). For that reason, it was > removed with git-clean. [...]
Ah, thanks! That explains it. Seems to me like kind of a chicken-and-egg problem, though. In order to build lilypond I need to read INSTALL.txt, but in order to read INSTALL.txt, I need to build lilypond first... I ended up googling for the file on the website and following the steps from there instead. T -- Тише едешь, дальше будешь.
