Re: Failed 'make' with 2.17.27 from tarball

[James]

On 30/09/13 08:28, David Kastrup wrote:
> Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > for some testings I tried to compile 2.17.27 from the tarball to be found at:
> > http://lilypond.org/website/development.html
> > on Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit
> >
> > Without success. The terminal-output points me to
> > contributor.makeinfo.log
> >
> > This file contains:
> > "
> > /home/me/lilypondH/lilypond-2.17.27/Documentation/contributor/programming-work.itexi:69:
> > warning: @image file `lilypond/pictures/architecture-diagram.txt' (for
> > text) unreadable: No such file or directory.
> That one's harmless (for the sake of image-less info format, makeinfo
> looks for ASCII art).
>
> > out/contributor.texi:101: @verbatiminclude `ly-grammar.txt': No such
> > file or directory.
> > makeinfo: Removing output file `out/lilypond-contributor.info' due to
> > errors; use --force to preserve.
> That one isn't.
>
> > Do we have a problem?
> Looks like it.  There were several recent changes in the build system,
> actually even a change that was supposed to actually distribute
> ly-grammar.txt.  It's conceivable that Make sees the distributed
> ly-grammar.txt and does not bother regenerating it, while makeinfo
> doesn't find it.  Which would mean that distributing ly-grammar.txt is
> what causing the problem.  It may also be that unrelated problems are
> involved.
>
> Did you try building in-place or in a separate build directory?

Is it safe to assume the tarball contains everything that would be in a 
normal 'git' repository?

I am never sure if test-patchy is really giving those makefile changes 
that Julien submits a 'run for their money' during the testing phase, 
however if simply doing a manual make/make doc in $LILYPOND_GIT would 
prove that then I can easily check this.

James