Building issues (lilypond and docs)

[Jay Anderson]

In response to this thread:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-12/msg00679.html
I'm attempting to build lilypond.

When building locally (an older version of mint linux) it ends with:

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jay/programming/lilypond/build/mf'
mkdir -p ./out
touch ./out/dummy.dep
echo '*' > ./out/.gitignore
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jay/programming/lilypond/build/mf'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jay/programming/lilypond/build/mf'
/home/jay/programming/lilypond/build/scripts/build/out/gen-emmentaler-scripts
--dir=./out --design-size=11
cd ./out && /usr/bin/fontforge -script emmentaler-11.genpe
Copyright (c) 2000-2014 by George Williams. See AUTHORS for Contributors.
 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
 with many parts BSD <http://fontforge.org/license.html>. Please read LICENSE.
 Based on sources from 01:49 UTC 13-Oct-2016-ML-D.
 Based on source from git with hash: fe1d84b7d05178885a36ba0adce0559a82a493d5
Cannot open /home/jay/programming/lilypond/build/mf/out/feta11.pfb
The requested file, feta11.pfb, does not exist
MergeFonts: Can't find font: feta11.pfb
Called from...
 emmentaler-11.genpe: line 17
make[1]: *** [out/emmentaler-11.otf] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jay/programming/lilypond/build/mf'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Sure enough it looks like feta11.pfb wasn't built. What should I look
at to see why it wasn't built?

Moving on from that I tried using lilydev and it builds fine in the
virtual machine, but when attempting `make doc` it ran for days on the
learning manual before I killed it. I gave the virtual machine 2gb to
work with. I'm going to try upping that to 4gb before trying again. Is
there anything else to look at here?

Thanks.

-----Jay