Re: make install fails with Lily 2.7.x

[Cameron Horsburgh]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:

Thanks for your reply!

> Cameron Horsburgh writes:
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>>install-info --remove --info-dir=/usr/local/info ./out/lilypond.info
>>install-info(./out/lilypond.info): failed to lock dir for editing! File
>>exists
>>try deleting /usr/local/info/dir.lock ?
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> Did you try?

Yes, I did. The result is exactly the same.

> 
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>>I have searched the archive and a similar problem was reported in
>>http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2005-08/msg00071.html
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> It's similar, but not the same.
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>>The replies seem to suggest that the problem was fixed, but apparently not!
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> That problem was fixed, this seems to be a problem with your system.

Given that no one else seems to have this problem, I suspected as much!
Do you have any idea where I should start looking?

An alternative which would keep me happy for now is to build LilyPond
without the documentation. Is there a not-too-involved way to do this?

> Jan.
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