Re: Windows tutorial

[David Kastrup]

Colin Campbell <address@hidden> writes:

> On 13-08-11 10:21 AM, Phil Holmes wrote:
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin Campbell" <address@hidden>
>> To: <address@hidden>
>> Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2013 5:06 PM
>> Subject: Re: Windows tutorial
>>>>
>>>
>>> Is it the non-optimised builds which fail? For a data point, I
>>> renamed my ~/lilypond-git then used lily-git.tcl to recreate it,
>>> after which I went through the rest of the build as normal. All I
>>> saw were the usual warnings about typing and some circular
>>> references, but both the binary build and make doc completed
>>> normally, producing a binary which reports as version 2.17.24 and
>>> corresponding documentation.
>>
>> In saying "it would require the ability to make doc" I was referring
>> to the fact that, for quite a few contributors, it just takes too
>> long.  I can fiddle a make doc by editing orchestra.ly, completing
>> the make and then undoing the edit.
>>
>> My system is Ubuntu 10.04 with 64 bit, but I don't know what makes
>> my build fail and others not.
>
> So, we have two systems performing repeatably: your Ubuntu 10.04
> 64-bit and my Linux Mint 15 64-bit Ubuntu derivative. Perhaps there is
> some way of narrowing the (probably many) differences between our
> systems?

While they are performing repeatably: can I just get a data point on
current master?  I committed another change.  Granted, it's not really
likely to make a difference when unoptimized builds fail as well, but it
still would be nice to hear back.

-- 
David Kastrup