Re: guile-config

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Alan McConnell <address@hidden> writes:

Hi,

> I have started with lilypond a couple of days ago and hope to get good
> at it.  To show my earnestness of purpose<g>, I went to the gnu site,
> downloaded, compiled, and installed gcc-3.0, in order to have a C++
> compiler(don't try this unless you have lots of disk space and several
> hours to compile it!)  I did this in order to build lilypond-1.4.8.

Let me get this straight.  You're running Debian, and want to get good
at LilyPond by building gcc from source?  Well, best of luck to you
but consider this:

   * LilyPond is part of Debian.  You can always try your luck
     installing lilypond from testing/unstable.
   * I wouldn't advice gcc-3.0, rather use 2.95.x.  But whatever you
     do, please just use the Debian packages.
   * INSTALL.txt lists the packages needed to compile LilyPond on
     Debian (mostly for developers that want to send patches).

> But now my ./configure insists that I need guile-config, which I don't
> know anything about.  There has been some discussion about this on the
> wiki, I saw, but it seems only relevant to RedHat people, whereas I am
> a Debian Woody person.

  18:59:02 address@hidden:~$ dpkg -S guile-config
  libguile-dev: /usr/bin/guile-config

Which may be libguile6-dev on woody.  But yoneed more stuff, see the
install instructions.

Jan.

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