Re: Can't get the thing to compile...

[Chris Jackson]

Alexandre Aractingi wrote:

> ... actually I can't get past the ./configure stage...
>
> I am using a Mandrake 9.0 Linux distribution, and I have tetex, python
> and libpython-devel installed (from Mandrake packages). I downloaded
> Lilypond 1.6.6, but ./configure says :
>
> ERROR: Please install required programs:  python.h (python-devel,
> python-dev or libpython-dev package)
>  

Did you remember to remove config.cache before rerunning ./configure?

> Now if I try to do the same with 1.7.4, everything is ok regarding
> Python, but it says I need guile-config 1.6, which I only have in
> version 1.4.
>
> So what do you think, do I really have to install guile 1.6 to get the
> thing compiled, or does somebody know a quick workaround to make 1.6.6
> compile properly?
Should be no problems with building 1.6 from source and putting it in 
/usr/local.
However as you're running Mandrake 9.0, even after you've got configure 
to run, you might
run into problems doing the compile. This distro has a buggy version of 
flex which generates
code which is not recognised by gcc 3.2. See past threads on this list:

http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/lilypond-user/2002-October/002916.html

describes a workaround (I haven't tried this myself).

--
chris