Re: Compiling 1.3.128?

[Anthony Fok]

On 5 Feb 2001, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Anthony Fok <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > > makeinfo  out/lilypond.texi -o out/lilypond.info
> 
> > Yes, I run into this problem from time to time.  Fortunately, not with
> > 1.3.128.  Han-wen and Jan, as you can see here, for some reasons, make's
> > internal .texi -> .info rule was not overriden.
> 
> That's strange.  The cancellation rule is right there, in
> Documentation/user/GNUmakefile:
> 
>     # Cancel default info generation rule.  We want to generate info from
>     # `.nexi', making sure we don't run LilyPond for inline pictures, when
>     # generating info.
>     $(outdir)/%.info: $(outdir)/%.texi
> 
> We always build .info from .nexi
> (.NOT-RUNNING-LILYPONDexi), we don't need or want to run lilypond for
> the text version of the doco.

Yes, I notice that too.  When I tried to build 1.3.127, it stopped at the
same spot (i.e. make using the implicit rule rather than following your
override).  I then tried playing with the GNUmakefiles and the rules a bit
(e.g. commenting or uncommenting your "$(outdir)/%.info: $(outdir)/%.texi"
rule), and then after a while, make miraculously work perfectly again,
i.e. the override works again.

I don't know if it is a bug in make, or some problem on my computer (I'm
experiencing random crashes with my Siemens-Fujitsu thin-client), or some
other things...  I didn't experience the problem in 1.3.127 any more, and
I didn't think I ran into it with 1.3.128.  What I did run into was
segfaults during the Postscript doc build, but that's likely due to
problem with my thinclient-turned-PC.  I still can't figure out whether it
is software problem (bugs in kernel_2.4.1-ac1) or some hardware problem.

I do have a question though.  How come you put in

        chmod -w lilypond.texi
or
        chmod -w lilypond.nexi  ?

Cheers,

Anthony

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