Re: Failed 'make' with 2.17.27 from tarball

[Thomas Morley]

2013/9/30 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> 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?

In a separate build directory, following CG, doing

     cd lilypond-2.17.27/
     sh autogen.sh --noconfigure
     mkdir -p build/
     cd build/
     ../configure
     make

-Harm