Villum Sejersen <v...@privat.tdcadsl.dk> writes: > As of today it seems I cannot compile lilypond from git sources, because: > > stepmake is no longer available as a debian package!
That's irrelevant as LilyPond comes with its own copy of stepmake. > For historical reasons I neither use Ubuntu nor any other debian-based > OS, but debian itself... > > My debian version is the current testing 'stretch'. > > > root@Villums14:/usr/local/src/lilypond/build# git pull origin > Already up-to-date. > > root@Villums14:/usr/local/src/lilypond/build# ../configure Please start with cd /usr/local/src/lilypond && ./autogen.sh --noconfigure Only then will the system be in useful state. > The important message here of course is "stepmake not found". That, > and no. 1.9 in INSTALL.txt to me signifies that until lilypond finds > out how to completely avoid stepmake I have no possibility to compile > lilypons from git! I have no intention to downgrade (or for that > matter upgrade) the debian version. > > For completion; 'make clean' or 'make distclean' fails to work too. Because you did not run ./autogen.sh --noconfigure. INSTALL.txt lists this as step 1.4.1. > In the long run I believe that any debian-derived OS will have to > abandon stepmake too... I think it leaves liypond with no other option > than to abandon stepmake as part of its compilation process? Nope. What parts of stepmake LilyPond needs are included in LilyPond itself. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
