Re: Which Linux distro for Lilypond

[Thomas Morley]

2017-01-07 11:00 GMT+01:00 Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>:
>
>>> 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


To build lilypond we require guile-xx-dev (don't remember if we
require guile-xx-libs as well).
Will the method described above make those files available?

Cheers,
  Harm