On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 04:50:21PM +0000, Carl Sorensen wrote: > On 2/25/12 9:23 AM, "Graham Percival" <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote: > > >No, and adding this to GUB will be particularly challenging. I'm > >afraid that this will probably postpone the patch indefinitely. > >:( > > Can't we add that package as a requirement for GUB (kind of like we have > done with libmpfr-dev)? And we can add it to lilydev.
Hmm, I hadn't thought of that... but I don't like the idea. Any use of stuff from the host system adds variables to the process; we already have too much randomness in terms of being able to compile GUB on some computers but not others. GUB really shouldn't use libmpfr-dev at all, nor fonts from the host system, etc. In fact, after it finishes make bootstrap, it should remove any host system directories from the PATH, and/or use a chroot to avoid picking up host-system stuff. If we did that -- after fixing bugs in the process, of course -- then we could actually have a reliable GUB provided that it completed make bootstrap. - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
