Re: Help with building LilyPond

[Thomas Morley]

2017-05-14 20:34 GMT+02:00 Thomas Morley <address@hidden>:

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> 2017-05-14 18:21 GMT+02:00 Winston, Charles R. <address@hidden>
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>> Hi LilyPond Developers!
>>
>> First off, let me introduce myself. My name is Charles Winston, and I’m
>> participating in the Google Summer of Code this year, working on improving
>> the internal representation of chords, with mentor Carl Sorenson. I’ve just
>> finished finals and so now I am really excited to get much more familiar
>> with LilyPond and its community in this period of community bonding.
>>
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> Hi Charles,
>
> welcome to the pond.
>
> I'm interested in the chords-topic myself ...
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>> I am having some trouble setting things up, specifically with building
>> LilyPond. I‘ve installed LilyDev and downloaded the source code using
>> lily-git successfully (I’ve been following the instructions on the LilyPond
>> Contributor’s Guide). However, when I try to prepare to build LilyPond
>> using the commands:
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>> cd $LILYPOND_GIT
>> sh autogen.sh --noconfigure
>> mkdir -p build/
>> cd build/
>> ../configure
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> This is the recommended method, all ok so far.
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>> I get the error:
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>> WARNING: Please consider installing optional programs or files:  URW++
>> OTF fonts (download OTF files from 'http://git.ghostscript.com/?p
>> =urw-core35-fonts.git;a=commit;h=79bcdfb34fbce12b592cce389fa7a19da6b5b018'
>> and put them under '~/.local/share/fonts' etc., or use --with-urwotf-dir)
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> guile-2.0 < 1.9.0 (installed: 2.0.13) extractpdfmark (Optionally using
>> Ghostscript >= 9.20 together with Extract PDFmark can significantly reduce
>> the disk space required for building the documentation and the final PDF
>> files.)
>>
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>> ERROR: Please install required programs:  guile-config < 1.9.0
>> (installed: 2.0.13) (guile-devel, guile-dev or libguile-dev package)
>> libguile (libguile-dev, guile-devel or guile-dev package).
>> GUILE-with-rational-bugfix
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>> See INSTALL.txt for more information on how to build LilyPond
>>
>>
>> It seems like I’m missing some files? The proper version of guile-config
>> and libguile. Where can I get these?
>>
>> Thanks for the help,
>> Charles
>>
>>
> Obviously, you've guile-2.0.13 installed.
> LilyPond still uses guile-1.7, please downgrade to this version (or
> guile-1.8).
> Then you should have all files in an acceptable version.
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> The support for guile-2.x is experimental and building LilyPond with
> guile-2.x is pretty pointless (unless you would want to work on the guile2
> migration).
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> The others are warnings, which you may ignore.
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> Cheers,
>   Harm
>

Wait, you wrote about using LilyDev. Did you take LilyDev 5.2? This one is
for the guile2-work.
Choose LilyDev 4.1 from
https://github.com/fedelibre/LilyDev/releases/tag/v4.1
and all should be fine.

Cheers,
  Harm