The utter impossibility of building a devel version RPM

[Daniel Jensen]

Hi. I'm running an updated RH 7.2 system and can't manage to build a 
lilypond RPM. I think this is a lilypond bug in a specific doc file, but 
I'm not sure. Attached is the part of the output in which there were errors.

All in all, I've never seen such a tricky 1.4 mb source package in my 
life :) Lilypond documentation takes a lot longer for me to build 
(unsuccessfully) than the linux kernel does (successfully).

I've got the following relevant packages installed:
autotrace 0.29-0, ghostscript 6.51-16 (and ghostscript-fonts 5.50-3), 
groff 1.17.2-7.0.2, tetex 1.0.7-38.2 (with tetex-afm, tetex-dvips, 
tetex-fonts, tetex-latex, and tetex-xdvi all of same version), texinfo 
4.0b-3, pktrace 0.6.10-1, pfaedit 020225-1, t1utils 1.25-1, gcc (and 
gcc-c++, libstdc++-devel) 2.96-98, glibc (and glibc-devel) 2.2.4-19.3, 
make 3.79.1, python (and python-devel) 1.5.2-35, flex 2.5.4a, bison 
1.28-7, guile (and guile-devel) 1.4-2.1, and netpbm (with netpbm-progs) 
9.14-2.

In addition, these seem to be documentation bugs:

From the install page:

> For compilation on a Red Hat system you need these packages, in
>addition to the those needed for running:
>glibc-devel, gcc-c++, libstdc++-devel, guile-devel, flex,
>bison, texinfo, tetex-devel, groff, libgr-progs.

Is libgr-progs still necessary? Or does Lilypond work equally well with 
netpbm and netpbm-progs? That seems to be the case (it looks like the 
only library lost from libgr and libgr-progs to netpbm and netpbm-progs 
is librle.so.1).

I haven't seen a tetex-devel package in ages, BTW. Tetex-devel seems to 
all have been incorporated either into the tetex distribution itself or 
into some of the packages usually installed along with tetex.

pktrace seems to be mandatory, not optional, for making the build 
starting somewhere between 1.5.30 and 1.5.34. I built 1.5.30 w/o problems.
(/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/lilypond-1.5.34/mf/parmesan-custodes.mf
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Hufnagel@:73@:0@:3.63284@:1.51251@:1.51251@:hufnagel-u0@:address@hidden [73]
@{char@:Custos 
Hufnagel@:74@:0@:3.63284@:1.51251@:1.51251@:hufnagel-u1@:address@hidden [74]
@{char@:Custos 
Hufnagel@:75@:0@:3.63284@:1.51251@:1.51251@:hufnagel-u2@:address@hidden [75]
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Hufnagel@:76@:0@:3.63284@:1.51251@:1.51251@:hufnagel-d0@:address@hidden [76]
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Hufnagel@:77@:0@:3.63284@:1.51251@:1.51251@:hufnagel-d1@:address@hidden [77]
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Hufnagel@:78@:0@:3.63284@:1.51251@:1.51251@:hufnagel-d2@:address@hidden [78]
@{char@:Custos 
Med.@:79@:0@:7.95576@:16.56201@:16.56201@:medicaea-u0@:address@hidden [79]
! Value is too large (4215.76294).
custos_medicaea->...=z3+(0,+(EXPR3)*stem_size*ht);
                                                  draw.z3..z4;fet_endchar;
l.159 ^^I^^Idir_up, on_staff_line)
                                  ;
! Curve out of range.
<to be read again> 
                   ;
custos_medicaea->...R3)*stem_size*ht);draw.z3..z4;
                                                  fet_endchar;
l.159 ^^I^^Idir_up, on_staff_line)
                                  ;
@{char@:Custos 
Med.@:80@:0@:7.95576@:16.56201@:16.56201@:medicaea-u1@:address@hidden [80]
@{char@:Custos 
Med.@:81@:0@:7.95576@:16.56201@:16.56201@:medicaea-u2@:address@hidden [81]
@{char@:Reverse Custos 
Med.@:82@:0@:7.95576@:16.56201@:16.56201@:medicaea-d0@:address@hidden [82]
! Value is too large (-4215.76294).
custos_medicaea->...=z3+(0,+(EXPR3)*stem_size*ht);
                                                  draw.z3..z4;fet_endchar;
l.171 ^^I^^Idir_down, on_staff_line)
                                    ;
! Curve out of range.
<to be read again> 
                   ;
custos_medicaea->...R3)*stem_size*ht);draw.z3..z4;
                                                  fet_endchar;
l.171 ^^I^^Idir_down, on_staff_line)
                                    ;
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@{char@:Custos Ed. 
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@{char@:Reverse Custos Ed. 
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@{char@:Reverse Custos Ed. 
Vat.@:89@:0@:7.95576@:16.56201@:16.56201@:vaticana-d1@:address@hidden [89]
@{char@:Reverse Custos Ed. 
Vat.@:90@:0@:7.95576@:16.56201@:16.56201@:vaticana-d2@:address@hidden [90]
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Mensural@:93@:0@:3.63284@:1.51251@:1.51251@:mensural-u2@:address@hidden [93]
@{char@:Reverse Custos 
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@{char@:Reverse Custos 
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@{char@:Reverse Custos 
Mensural@:96@:0@:3.63284@:1.51251@:1.51251@:mensural-d2@:address@hidden [96]
@{puorg@:address@hidden
) (/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/lilypond-1.5.34/mf/parmesan-accidentals.mf
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Natural@:99@:0@:1.65002@:1.65002@:5.5@:vaticana0@:address@hidden [99]
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Flat@:102@:1.375@:1.92499@:1.09999@:4.95001@:hufnagel-1@:address@hidden [102]
@{puorg@:address@hidden
) (/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/lilypond-1.5.34/mf/parmesan-flags.mf
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) (/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/lilypond-1.5.34/mf/parmesan-timesig.mf
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meter@:127@:4.8125@:4.8125@:2.0625@:2.0625@:old4/4@:address@hidden [127]
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meter@:135@:4.8125@:4.8125@:2.0625@:2.0625@:old4/8@:address@hidden [135]
@{char@:Mensural 6/8 
meter@:136@:4.8125@:4.8125@:2.0625@:2.0625@:old6/8alt@:address@hidden [136]
@{char@:Mensural 2/4 
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@{puorg@:address@hidden
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@{tnof@:address@hidden
 )
(see the transcript file for additional information)
(some charht values had to be adjusted by as much as 0.20624pt)
(some chardp values had to be adjusted by as much as 0.24062pt)
Font metrics written on parmesan11.tfm.
Output written on parmesan11.6570gf (138 characters, 498044 bytes).
Transcript written on parmesan11.log.
error: mf: command exited with value 256

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/bin/pktrace", line 802, in ?
    autotrace_font (fontname, tfmfile, glyph_range, encoding, outname)
  File "/usr/bin/pktrace", line 456, in autotrace_font
    base =  gen_pixel_font (fontname_base, metric)
  File "/usr/bin/pktrace", line 690, in gen_pixel_font
    system(r"mf '\mode:=ljfour; mag:=%f; nonstopmode; input %s'" % 
(mag,fontname))
  File "/usr/bin/pktrace", line 215, in system
    error (msg)
  File "/usr/bin/pktrace", line 109, in error
    raise _ ("Exiting ... ")
Exiting ... 
make[1]: *** [out/parmesan11.pfa] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/lilypond-1.5.34/mf'
make: *** [all] Error 2
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.50881 (%build)


RPM build errors:
    Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.50881 (%build)