Re: Please test gub

[James]

Hello,

On 28/01/2019 12:53, Knut Petersen wrote:
> Hi everybody!
>
> I created a branch in my gub repository  that contains 
> https://github.com/gperciva plus pull requests 53-60. Therefore it is 
> pretty easy to test if that version of gub succeeds to build current 
> lilypond master on your machine.
>
> All you need to do is to execute the following commands:
>
>    git clone https://github.com/knupero/gub.git -b DevelHead
>    cd gub
>    mkdir regtests
>    cd regtests
>    wget 
> http://lilypond.org/downloads/binaries/test-output/lilypond-2.19.82-1.test-output.tar.bz2
>    touch ignore
>    cd ..
>    time make lilypond
>
> Even on a fast computer 'make lilypond' will take some hours to complete.
>
> If downloading of a source archive fails because of some network 
> problem restart 'make lilypond'.
>
> You'll need some free disk space ... about 20 GB is a minimum.
>
> Please report success / fails with os / version / cpu info.
>
> Knut

I'd like to help here if I can.

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.

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

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?

Thanks

James