Re: compilation error

[Mats Bengtsson]

> > I'm afraid you underestimate the number of people who actually
> > compile LilyPond themselves and have to struggle with development
> > versions of other tools just to be able to build LilyPond.
>
>
> Possibly.  We try our best to discourage people to do so.  I see no
> reason whatsoever for a user to compile LilyPond.  There are fairly
> recent development snapshots for Red Hat, Debian and even Cygwin
> nowadays.

But, at the same time, you want to encourage people to submit
documentation patches (and other patches) and it's certainly
a big advantage if it's easy for them to build the documentation
after a change to see what it looks like before they submit the
patches.

  /Mats