Re: state of the ’Pond for earnest tadpoles

[Phil Holmes]

It shouldn't take multiple hours unless your system is very slow.  A few 10s of 
minutes is a more reasonable expectation.


On 01/01/2021 23:00, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi Michael (et al.),
>
> > please use http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.21/Documentation/contributor/lilydev
> > instead. I adjusted some parts of this section last year. However, I
> > would be happy to hear if something remains still unclear.
> This is great. Thanks.
>
> I have now compiled Lilypond on my machine! Took ~10 minutes (though I was 
> doing a lot of other processor-intensive things at the same time, didn’t 
> minimize the terminal window, etc., so I expect that can be reduced). Despite 
> multiple attempts in the past, this is the first time I’ve ever been able to do 
> that — thanks to all for the help to this point.
>
> The only suggestion I would have is to maybe mention that the initial build 
> outputs *some* documentation. When I started seeing “Making Documentation/out” 
> in the terminal output, I started to worry that I had somehow triggered the 
> documentation build which would apparently take multiple hours.  =)
>
> More soon!
> Kieren.
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Phil Holmes