Re: development on windows

[Jonathan Kulp]

Graham Percival wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 05:20:55PM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote:
> > Thanks Graham. There was a ton of stuff owned by root in the lybook-db/
> > directory. I tried your command to xarg rm -rf but it said permission denied
> > (even though I did it as sudo and typed the password).
>
> Oh yeah... IIRC if you do
>   sudo fidn . blah | xargs
> then the xargs is evaluated as your normal user account.  I'd have
> done a sudo bash, but changing the permissions with chown is also
> fine.
>
> > What I don't understand is how the permissions got jacked up in
> > the first place. I didn't do anything different this time than I
> > usually do.  I've never had the permissions problem before.
> > Maybe I put a "sudo" in there inadvertently but I don't recall
> > doing any sudos until "sudo make install." Do you think that was
> > the problem?
>
> Yes, I'm sure that's it.  It's just possible that "make" failed on
> some file(s), and when you tried "sudo make install" it
> successfully built those files.
>
> > Re: the lilybuntu remix, I've removed a ton of applications but
> > I can't get the .iso image below 853 MB. I'll try it with the
> > xfce desktop and if that doesn't help I'll try it with
> > ubuntu-lite, which does not yet have a stable release but is
> > only 356 MB on the live CD, leaving plenty of room to add the
> > lilypond build dependencies.
>
> It would be nice if it were 500 megs or so, but until/unless
> somebody is actually using it, I'm not certain it's worth the
> effort to reduce the 853 MB further.

Ok. The main problem I'm having now is that I can't get a 
successful doc build from any of these fresh installs.  That's 
what the other thread is about--the pdfetex exiting with errors 
thread.  I keep doing fresh installs followed up by my 
lilypond-build-dependencies installation script, and then I get 
the source code from git and try to build everything.  Autogen 
runs and everything checks out, it creates the makefiles for me, 
and I do "make all."  The lilypond binary builds fine, but then 
when I do "make doc" it fails.  Once I figure out why it's 
happening, I'll be able to spin a fresh .iso.

I think what I'll do is try one more time to build the docs in 
Linux Mint with the suggestions you gave me in the other thread, 
and if it doesn't work then I'm just going to create an .iso of my 
regular working installation (the one that ends up being 1.1GB) 
and try doing a fresh install from that on the experimental 
partition. If it all works properly, then I can use that 
installation to work from, removing the office suite, media 
players, gimp, etc. to trim the size down and then create a new .iso.

> Tim, have you used VMware before?  This should allow you to
> compile LilyPond inside a virtual machine.  I'm not certain what
> the best way is to transfer the iso from Jonathan to you, though.

Once it's ready maybe I can create a torrent?  I've never done 
that before but it's probably the best way to transfer it.  It'll 
take a while.  I have control of a server in my office at school, 
but I don't feel comfortable uploading a gigantic file to it--it's 
a mission-critical server handling my online music appreciation 
class.  Probably a torrent is the way to go, or else snail mail. :)

Jon

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