Re: How to use LilyDev without systemd

[Peter Toye]

Thursday, January 9, 2020, 11:08:57 AM, Federico Bruni wrote:


> Hi Peter

> Il giorno gio 9 gen 2020 alle 10:18, Peter Toye
> <address@hidden> ha 
> scritto:
>> Dear Federico,

>> Thomas Morley forwarded you an email from 
>> http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/A-suggestion-add-rf-to-built-in-dynamics-td226659.html

>> One issue in it was that my Linux distro (antiX) does not have 
>> systemd, and it appears from the documentation that LilyDev needs it. 
>> I am a Linux newbie, and don't fully understand the container system. 
>> Apparently you are the expert on this.


> Only the container (Lilydev-1-debian.tar.xz file) needs systemd.
> The virtual machine (LilyDev-1-debian-vm.zip
> file) can be installed in 
> VirtualBox or GNOME Boxes (or any libvirt frontend).


> Another option, if you want to keep your
> lilypond dev environment 
> separated from your system, is Debootstrap:
> https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap

> but then you must set up the system following the CG:
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/contributor/requirements-for-compiling-lilypond#ubuntu
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/contributor/requirements-for-building-documentation

> and build guile-1.8 using these commands:
> https://github.com/fedelibre/LilyDev/blob/master/mkosi/debian/mkosi.postinst#L42

> (copy lines 23-35 of that file to ~/.bashrc
> before compiling guile-1.8)


>> Is there any chance you could find time to let me know whether the 
>> container version of LilyDev will run under any of the 
>> easily-available container managers (Docker, LXC...)? If it wn't, I 
>> suppose that I will  have to try to find a Linux version that will 
>> run on my rather ancient laptop.



> Yes, if you can install Docker, you can use the Dockerfile contributed
> by Dan Eble:
> https://github.com/fedelibre/LilyDev/tree/master/docker

> It would be very useful to upload that Docker
> image to Docker Hub but I 
> haven't found the time to do it yet (especially because I'm using
> Fedora, which switched to Podman as alternative to Docker.. and Podman
> doesn't have yet the Docker-compose feature..).

Thanks very much for this. It seems I have quite a few choices. I'll have to go 
away and have a big think.

Best wishes,

Peter