Re: Windows tutorial

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin Campbell" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2013 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: Windows tutorial


> On 13-08-11 05:52 AM, Phil Holmes wrote:
> > There have been occasional comments on -user to the effect that the 
> > current windows tutorial does not describe what actually occurs with the 
> > Windows install.  I've downloaded the latest LilyPond version and 
> > redrafted the tutorial based on what now we see.  I've also updated all 
> > the images.
> >
> > Don't think it's worth making this into a patch at this point, since 
> > checking it would require the ability to make doc.  I've put it on a web 
> > page:
> >
> > http://www.philholmes.net/lilypond/windtut/
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> > --
> > Phil Holmes
>
> Is it the non-optimised builds which fail? For a data point, I renamed my 
> ~/lilypond-git then used lily-git.tcl to recreate it, after which I went 
> through the rest of the build as normal. All I saw were the usual warnings 
> about typing and some circular references, but both the binary build and 
> make doc completed normally, producing a binary which reports as version 
> 2.17.24 and corresponding documentation.

In saying "it would require the ability to make doc" I was referring to the 
fact that, for quite a few contributors, it just takes too long.  I can 
fiddle a make doc by editing orchestra.ly, completing the make and then 
undoing the edit.

My system is Ubuntu 10.04 with 64 bit, but I don't know what makes my build 
fail and others not.



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Phil Holmes