Re: LilyPond in Debian

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno lun 11 set 2017 alle 12:29, Urs Liska <address@hidden> 
ha scritto:
> >  Once you've built the binary in the container, it's available also 
> > to
> >  the host without any further configuration (i.e. no need of shared
> >  folders).
>
> OK, this seems like progress, although I'd much prefer having the 
> build
> environment on my actual regular OS.
>
> But will a LilyPond build created on this LilyDev also run outside of
> the VM? It seems to me I would also have to use the VM for *working*
> with the self-compiled LilyPond?


Yes, you need to run the built binary within the container.
I've just tested it. I can print the lilypond version, but when I try 
to compile a minimal example I get an error.

$ lilypond-git/build/out/bin/lilypond 
lilypond-git/ly/Welcome_to_LilyPond.ly
GNU LilyPond 2.19.65
ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path:
ERROR: Unable to find file "lily.scm" in load path