Re: Please test gub

[Knut Petersen]

Hi James!
> I'd like to help here if I can.
Thanks


> However at home I am on metered internet and it appears that after make 
> lilypond it starts to download files? Can you tell me approximately how large 
> the data that will be downloaded is - speed of download isn't an issue, just 
> the amount.

Gub + downloaded source files:  about 710 MB


> Also, I assume we can use the same make -jX CPU_COUNT=X parameters to help 
> speed up things?

No. But gub itself (repeatedly executed by 'make lilypond') uses -jX to build 
packages whenever the package specification allows it. On my system (i7-4790K, 
55/10 MBit network connection) 'make lilypond' takes about 185 minutes.


> Finally - in case I am being stupid, I don't follow the GUB threads in detail - 
> I obviously have all the reqs to build LP and make doc etc. So apart from this 
> git repo is there anything else I need to have installed?

Nothing unusual. But our python seems to be incompatible to gcc 8.x. gcc-8 
might be installed as long as there is also a gcc-7 somewhere in PATH.


   Status of GUB (branch DevelHead of https://github.com/knupero/gub.git == 
https://github.com/gperciva/gub.git + pull requests 53-60)
   
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   os: linux / distribution: openSuSE TumbleWeed / cpu: i7-4790K / tested by: 
Knut / status: ok / remarks: gcc-7 must be installed
   os: linux / distribution: ubuntu 14.04        / cpu: i7-4790K / tested by: 
Knut / status: ok / remarks: none
   os: linux / distribution: ubuntu 18.04        / cpu: i7-4790K / tested by: 
Knut / status: ok / remarks: none

Knut