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Re: What happened to INSTALL.txt?
From: |
H. S. Teoh |
Subject: |
Re: What happened to INSTALL.txt? |
Date: |
Sat, 25 Jul 2020 09:25:11 -0700 |
On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 09:47:16AM +0200, Jonas Hahnfeld wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Freitag, den 24.07.2020, 15:14 -0700 schrieb H. S. Teoh:
> > I pulled lilypond sources from git today, and while trying to figure
> > out a botched configure invocation, I did a git clean -x -f, and now
> > INSTALL.txt doesn't exist anymore...? I did a fresh git clone from
> > git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git but same thing, INSTALL.txt seems
> > to have gone missing?
>
> INSTALL.txt is not tracked in git, but generated from texinfo sources
> when running ./configure (or ./autogen.sh). For that reason, it was
> removed with git-clean.
[...]
Ah, thanks! That explains it.
Seems to me like kind of a chicken-and-egg problem, though. In order to
build lilypond I need to read INSTALL.txt, but in order to read
INSTALL.txt, I need to build lilypond first... I ended up googling for
the file on the website and following the steps from there instead.
T
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Тише едешь, дальше будешь.
- What happened to INSTALL.txt?, H. S. Teoh, 2020/07/24
- Re: What happened to INSTALL.txt?, Jonas Hahnfeld, 2020/07/25
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- Re: What happened to INSTALL.txt?, Knute Snortum, 2020/07/26
- Re: What happened to INSTALL.txt?, Werner LEMBERG, 2020/07/26
- Re: What happened to INSTALL.txt?, Knute Snortum, 2020/07/27
- Re: What happened to INSTALL.txt?, H. S. Teoh, 2020/07/30
- Re: What happened to INSTALL.txt?, antlists, 2020/07/30
- Re: What happened to INSTALL.txt?, H. S. Teoh, 2020/07/30
- Re: What happened to INSTALL.txt?, Knute Snortum, 2020/07/31