Re: make web fails for LilyPond 2.8.0/2.9.0 source drop [Also] Re: Futile attempts to build LilyPond 2.8.0

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Herman Grootaers wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 April 2006 10:47, Andreas Scherer wrote:
> > R. Mattes <rm <at> mh-freiburg.de> writes:
> > > Ok, i found the "bug". It looks like this is triggered
> > > by using guile-1.6.n instead of guile-1.8 - this also
> > > explains why Andreas' build failed.
> > Confirmed. After updating OpenSUSE 10.0 with guile-1.8.0, all is well
> > again. "make all web" runs to completion with both the LilyPond 2.8.1
> > source drop and the 2.9.1 CVS contents.
> I encountered the same error, But it is not a bug in itself; just that 
> the configure tests against old versions of certain programs, guile and 
> mftrace that i know about.
>
> Maybe an action for the main-core developers to update the files which 
> contain old info, so an end-user who is familiar with  the normal 
> build-procedure can use it.

the goal for 2.8 is to be compatible with guile 1.6 , and it largely is.

For 2.9/3.0 we will require guile 1.8, as we'll likely drop our in-house 
rational number support for GUILE's.

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