Re: building lilypond 2.8.1 on Debian unstable

[Thomas Bushnell BSG]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> writes:

> Thomas Bushnell writes:
>
>> Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2006-03/msg00066.html
>>
>> Thanks.  I think for Debian it will be ok to just require python2.4.
>
> Good catch, the configure scripts needs to be fixed.

It seems to me there are two possible fixes: one is to require python
2.4, the other is to ship the relevant library as part of lilypond and
use that when python 2.3 is being used.  The latter seems to be too
much work for too little benefit.

>> So that still leaves as a bug the mismatch between how
>> make/lilypond-vars.make sets LILYPONDPREFIX and how the scripts expect
>> it to be set.
>
> Indeed.  We kludge around here a bit, and it happens to work by
> accident, we'll fix this too.

Great to hear.  There is some Debian-delay getting all the
dependencies for 2.8.1 going, so I'm happy to wait for the next
release for it.

Thomas