Re: Windows tutorial

[Colin Campbell]

On 13-08-11 10:21 AM, Phil Holmes wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin Campbell" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2013 5:06 PM
> Subject: Re: Windows tutorial
> > >
> >
> > 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.


So, we have two systems performing repeatably: your Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit 
and my Linux Mint 15 64-bit Ubuntu derivative. Perhaps there is some way 
of narrowing the (probably many) differences between our systems?

Cheers,
Colin

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