Re: Building in WSL

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 17/06/2021 à 10:45, James a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> On 12/06/2021 11:01, James wrote:
> > Kevin,
> >
> > On 12/06/2021 10:02, Kevin Barry wrote:
> > > OK well something must have changed since I last did a build on WSL
> > > because I couldn't even get `make all' on a freshly checked out master
> > > to work. And that was *definitely* working before.
> > >
> > > It fails now with this error:
> > > Making Documentation/out/en/changes.texi < tely
> > > lilypond-book.py: error: file not found: version.itexi
> > >
> > > I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 on WSL 2. My normal Linux system doesn't have
> > > the same problem.
> > >
> > > Kevin
>
> I cannot even get autogen.sh to run!
>
>
> -bash: ./autogen.sh: /bin/sh^M: bad interpreter: No such file or 
> directory
>
> This appears to be caused by a line ending difference betwen *nix and 
> Windows.
>
> Ugh. So much for WSL. I keep running into issues like this and yet 
> some people keep insisting to me that WSL == Linux (or as good as).
>
> Oh well. So much for compiling on WSL.

I don't have Windows to test, but this sounds like you want to run:

git config --global core.autocrlf false

and re-clone the repository.

Best,
Jean