Re: issue 1464 (was: a plea to new contributors)

[Graham Percival]

On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 11:35:33AM +0100, Matthias Kilian wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 12:55:45AM +0000, Graham Percival wrote:
> > > Bisected to this one (cc'd Neil):
> > 
> > Fantastic!  Bisecting is one of the most useful, yet also
> > time-consuming, parts of fixing regressions.
> 
> Maybe time-consuming, but in theory, everyone able to build lilypond
> from git can write a little shell script that does the make clean
> / autogen.sh / make all / run the test combo and pass this script
> to git bisect run. I didn't to this the other day, but next time I
> will do.

autogen.sh won't do anything, and in most cases, make clean won't
be necessary.  I might write something in CG 8.7 about this.

Incidently, we now recommend an out-of-tree build.  The
instructions aren't online yet, but they're in git:
  ./autogen.sh -noconfigure
  mkdir -p build/
  cd build/
  ../configure
  make

This occasionally breaks in git, but the official releases are all
made with an out-of-tree build, so any source tarball will work
this this method.  I just mention this in case it's useful for
your packaging work.

Cheers,
- Graham