Re: Building Lily

[Tapio Tuovila]

Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> The list of "Too many errors!" usually appears if you haven't upgraded
> to a very new version of texinfo. However, it only affects the
> documentation, so as long as you use the documentation on the web,
> make followed by make install should provide a perfectly useful
> installation.
>
>    /Mats


This is interesting and probably very useful information. However, when 
I tried to build 2.4.2 on Suse 9.1 I had upgraded texinfo to the newest 
that could be found as source code. And this "Too many errors!" thing 
appeared also after succesful ./configure when plain 'make' was tried. 
So I rolled backwards and found out that still some packages that were 
needed for building the actual lilypond application were missing. So I 
installed the missing packages and after that the building and 
installing went OK. So in this case it seemed to me it was not question 
about documentation. (Only my humble view, but the situation discribed 
in the original message seemed familiar, so... ;-)  )

regards,

Tapio

> Tapio Tuovila wrote:
>
> > LinuxChiq wrote:
> >
> > > I am trying to build Lilypond 2.4.2 on Suse 9.1. I have gotten 
> > > ./configure to
> > > complete without errors, but when I make all it bails with a long 
> > > list of
> > > Too many errors!  Gave up.
> > >
> > > I don't see an install.log - where can I find out what the problem is?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Raven
> > >  
> >
> > Hi,
> > you can roll backwards your console screen, the cause of the problem 
> > is being printed somewhere near the beginning of the error list. As 
> > far as I recall there were some (two? three?) packages missing, even 
> > if ./configure completes OK.
> >
> > But 2.4.2 can be built on Suse 9.1 OK.
> >
> > best regards,
> >
> > Tapio
> >
> >
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