Re: Which Linux distro for Lilypond

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> Mhmm, compiling and installing guile 1.8 is not rocket science...
> 
> Probably not, but ...
> 
>> Have you tried that already?
> 
> ... i am not familiar enough with all this packaging stuff to be
> confident about installing alternative versions to system installed
> packages ...

You would install that locally – this is simpler than global locations
like `/usr/local'.

> Where would I find suitable documentation or tutorials to do so
> (doesn't have to be explicitly about Guile 1.8 vs. 2 of course)?

It's rather simple.

  cd ~
  mkdir gnu-packages
  wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.8.tar.gz
  tar xzvf guile-1.8.8.tar.gz
  cd guile-1.8.8
  ./configure --disable-error-on-warning --prefix=`pwd`/../gnu-packages

Check the `configure' output carefully (which gets logged in file
`config.log'); it tells you what you have to install as prerequisites
besides a C compiler.  If you get a failure, siply restart the
`configure' script (with all options) until it succeeds.  Finally, do

  make
  make install

That's it.  If you configure and build lilypond, do it with

  PATH=~/gnu-packages/bin:$PATH ./configure ...

so that `guile-config' from version 1.8.8 gets found before the one
from the OS.


    Werner