Re: building sections of the docs

[Paul Scott]

Unfortunately it's easy to accidentally send these from an unsubscribed 
address.

Graham Percival wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:14:24 -0700
> Paul Scott <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>   
> > I'm following instructions at:
> >
> > http://web.uvic.ca/~gperciva/advanced-tech.txt
> >
> > I'm trying to build to see the relationship between the source
> > (.itely) and the actual doc.  I'm very visual.  I don't necessarily
> > need WYSIWYG but I like seeing the output at some point.  I haven't
> > made any changes for the above reason.  Is a commit necessary to be
> > able to build?
> >     
>
> No, you don't need commit ability.
>
> Building the docs isn't covered on the uvic pages; instead, please
> see Application Usage, section 1.2.4 Building the docs without
> compiling LilyPond.  (even if you _do_ compile lilypond yourself,
> this page is still useful)
>   
Whatever reference I found so far said Program Usage 1.2.4 and I
couldn't find it.  (Sometimes I'm very literal)  Now I see

Application Usage and have found 1.2.4.  :)

What does the following mean?

You may build the manual ( Documentation/user/ ) without building all
the input/* stuff.

I have now followed the previous steps on that page and don't understand 
this one.

>   
> > It gives the same failure.  I see that there is a config.make.in but
> > not a config.make in the top directory.
> >     
>
> Did you run ./autogen.sh ?  Do that, and ignore any errors.  Then
> copy GNUmakefile.in to GNUmakefile -- again, see AU 1.2.4.
>   
Now I have.  See above.
> For the record, what OS are you using?
>   
debian sid.

Thanks,

Paul

> Cheers,
> - Graham
>