Title: Upgrading from 2.6 to 2.8
Hello, all.
I post this with the hopes that it will prove helpful to someone.
I run on a Gentoo Linux system (thanks to whoever picked up the maintenance for the lilypond ebuild! When will I see 2.8.1, btw?) and ran into a simple issue that took a while
Here's how to get Lilypond 2.8.1 installed from source in Gentoo... it
isn't hard. This includes installing a patched version of Ghostscript
8.53 (which under Gentoo supports the hl1250 printer driver in addition
to the standard drivers).
1. make sure PORTDIR_OVERLAY is declared in
