Re: LilyPond in Debian

[Knut Petersen]

> Hm, will I be able to get a system where I can build LilyPond again?

Urs, building guile 1.8 is a pretty trivial and fast process. Just do it and 
don't care about debian

> 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)

Attached you'll find a script that builds guile and lilypond from local copies 
of their git repositories.
Obviously you'll have to adapt some paths defined and and used in the script 
(LILYSOURCE, GUILESOURCE, LILYROOT) first.

Knut

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