building Lilypond 2.4.6 on Ubuntu 4.10 : problem with mftrace option [+ workaround]

[SPORN David]

Hi,

Yesterday I finally managed to build Lilypond 2.4.6. First I could get 
all the dependancies libs and software through regular repositories 
(Ubuntu + universe + multiverse) with synaptic, except texinfo (I can 
have only 4.6, 4.7 required). Since texinfo is for building the manual, 
I will rely the website, so that's not blocking. I just had to tweak the 
configure script to change "4.7" to "4.6".

On the other hand, during the build process, there was a problem with 
mftrace. I have a newer version than the one required, and it seems that 
 the "--formats=pfa" is not supported anymore, but "--pfa" instead. So 
I modified 3 files : GNUmakefile in ./mf, a python script (in 
./buildscript, but can't remember which one) an a rule file in 
./stepmake. (I think that you might find the file using 'find . -exec 
grep -il "formats=" {} \;')

This solved the problem and I could complete the building process except 
the user manual (as expected...) and then install it (again it fails 
when trying to install the manual, but that's ok)


PS: I think that my workaround is *very* dirty, but I'm not used to the 
Autotools, and the project is quite huge, and I just wanted to achieve 
the process...

PS2: by the way, is there an option in the configure or make to skip the 
building of the user manual ?
On the other hand, why not provide a separate package with the user 
manual ready to use (html/pdf) ? unlike the binary package wich need to 
be tuned for a distribution, this one would be a "one size fit all".

PS3:Good job !
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David SPORN (Poste 4336)
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