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

[Alexandre Aractingi]

Le mar 29/10/2002 à 16:08, Chris Jackson a écrit :

> 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).


Hi Chris, just to keep you and the list informed that Lilypond compiled
successfully on my Mandrake 9.0 with a patched flex (thanks to Heikki
Junes). Everything is ok now, thanks for your kind help!
Alex

PS: the patch can be found on the lilypond-devel mailing-list archives,
for those who may be interested...