Re: Fun with upgrades - not

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno mar 28 giu 2016 alle 19:27, James <address@hidden> ha scritto:
> > I would first try to set up the system and avoid virtual machines 
> > for LilyPond development.
> > Installing the dependencies should be as easy as:
> >
> > sudo apt-get build-dep lilypond
>
> Except when it isn't.
>
> I.e. all those extra bits that are documented in the CG.
>
> I did a bit of work on a number of Distributions and have had to 
> document those little idiosyncrasies there.
>
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/contributor-big-page#requirements-for-compiling-lilypond

Ok, but the point is that it usually works quite easily, at least in my 
experience.

BTW, today I've set up a Debian container with debootstrap and 
systemd-container, to work around the problem of GCC6 in Fedora. It 
seems a very nice way to have a controlled environment for lilypond 
development. I think I'll send some notes soon in this list, in case 
someone wants to try it out.