Re: LilyPond in Debian

[David Kastrup]

Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:

> Yes, indeed better than nothing (sudo apt install lilypond => "package
> lilypond has no release candidate").
> OTOH it may take some pressure off the need for a "proper" solution ...
>
> Hm, will I be able to get a system where I can build LilyPond again? I'm
> really not fluent enough with package management, but could I install
> Guile 1.8 from sid and use that for setting up my LilyPond environment?
> I really don't want to use an extra virtual machine just for that.
> (I don't need step-by-step instructions here, just a confirmation if it
> is possible (and maybe a general pointer on how to proceed)

You just take the Guile 1.8.8 distribution (Git or tarball) to some
suitable directory and do
./autogen.sh  # I think
./configure --disable-error-on-warning --prefix=/opt/guile-1.8
make
sudo make install

and then you have to use something like
CONFIG_GUILE=/opt/guile-1.8/bin/config-guile ./autogen.sh

in order to configure LilyPond.

Compiling LilyPond will produce an inordinate amount of warnings on
current GCC.

-- 
David Kastrup