Hi all, every now and then many of us need to use different versions of LilyPond - this is especially true for developers. In fact, most developers usually want many concurrent LilyPond versions built from the source code.
It was my dream for more than a year to automate the process of compiling custom LilyPonds from source code in a way that would allow to use these versions completely independently, and at the same time have them linked together. I think that i've finally succeeded - attached is a script (build-lily.sh) that does just this. I think that the script should be user-friendly enough to enable non-developers easily build custom (i.e. unreleased) versions of lilypond for themselves, without having to learn Git or any such things - you just need to run a script, and then you can make this new lilyponds available to Frescobaldi. (Unfortunately LilyPond cannot be built on Windows, you need Linux for that - but you could install one in a virtual machine). Detailed instructions are in the scrpit itself, you can see them by running the script with '-h' option. This script has proven itself very helpful in my daily lilypond work - that's why i decided to share it with you. Of course, i recommend that "non-technical" users wait until experienced developers check if i hadn't made any mistakes :) cheers, Janek PS for those that don't have a clone of LilyPond source code yet, you can use attached "grab-lily-sources.sh" (it's written for Ubuntu, Debian and other systems that use apt-get. Building script itself should work with any major Linux distribution). PPS you can find my repository containing this script here: https://github.com/janek-warchol/cli-tools/tree/master/lilypond (pull requests welcome).
grab-lily-sources.sh
Description: Bourne shell script
build-lily.sh
Description: Bourne shell script
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