Re: About lilypond's build problem with debian

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Han-Wen Nienhuys schreef:
> Ludovic RESLINGER schreef:
> > On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 12:25:42PM +0200, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> > > Thomas Bushnell BSG schreef:
> > >
> > > > I'm distressed that nobody has bothered to fix the bug since then.  In
> > > > the thread on the mailing list you can see that if LILYPONDPREFIX is
> > > > set correctly, the bug goes away.
> > > This issue has been addressed in a more robust manner in the 2.9 
> > > series, and I would welcome a backport of the changes; we haven't 
> > > found the time to do it.
>
> > I tried to build lilypond 2.9.11, and I met the same build error:
> >
> > chmod 755 out/convert-ly
> > /usr/bin/perl /home/lr/lilypond-2.9.11/buildscripts/out/help2man
> > out/convert-ly > out/convert-ly.1
> > help2man: can't get `--help' info from out/convert-ly
> > make[1]: *** [out/convert-ly.1] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/lr/lilypond-2.9.11/scripts'
> > make: *** [all] Error 2
> >
> > I think there is another problem or actual correction in 2.9 series
> > doesn't correct the bug.
>
> Can you investigate in more detail; the help2man invocation is in
>
>  stepmake/stepmake/help2man-rules.make
>
> I need to know why exactly the convert-ly call is failing.

More details:

  make/lilypond-vars.make

sets PYTHONPATH to

  $(top-build-dir)/python/$(outconfbase):$(PYTHONPATH)

which includes python/out/lilylib.pyc

Can you figure out why it's not working at your side? Thanks.

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