Re: GUB - touch regtests/ignore ???

[Thomas Morley]

Am Sa., 15. Dez. 2018 um 22:39 Uhr schrieb David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>
> Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I tried to join the party about GUB.
> > So far I have a successful 'make bootstrap'
> >
> > As a next step the CG says:
> > "
> > Once this has completed successfully, you can build the LilyPond
> > release package. However, this uses an archived version of the
> > regression tests, so it is better to download this first. Download the
> > test output from lilypond.org (you will need to replace 2.15.33-1 with
> > the latest build):
> >
> > http://lilypond.org/downloads/binaries/test-output/lilypond-2.15.33-1.test-output.tar.bz2
> > "
> >
> > Ok, I've done it, for the 2.19.82-regtests. Now the CG recommends:
> > "
> > Copy the tarball into ‘regtests/’, and tell the build system that you
> > have done this:
> >
> > touch regtests/ignore
> > "
> >
> > ???
> >
> > There is no folder in GUB called "regtests", so I've created one and
> > inserted the regtest. Trying the next command, i.e.:
> > [gub (master) ] $ touch regtests/ignore
> > returns:
> > touch: cannot touch 'regtests/ignore': no such file or directory
> >
> > Well, obviously I didn't do things correctly, but what _am_ I supposed to 
> > do?
>
> touch just creates the named file as an empty file (if it doesn't exist
> yet, otherwise it reads and writes a byte from it in order to update the
> modification date).  The only way (I am simplifying here since the
> symbolic-link related ways are too weird to be relevant here) to have it
> clamor "no such file or directory" is when in the _current_ directory
> (whatever it may be) there _is_ no directory named "regtests".  So
> probably your current directory is not what the instructions expect.
>
> --
> David Kastrup

You're right. I just figured it myself. I had created the
regtests-folder in the wrong environment.
After correction the above command worked. I now try

make lilypond

We'll see what happens ...


Thanks,
  Harm