Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> writes: >> I've not used my Ubuntu 14 lilypond computer for a while, and I'm >> now trying to help update the example images on the website. If I >> run configure I'm being told my makeinfo is too old - I've got 5.2 >> and it requires 6.1. I can't run the GUI updater because it just >> tells me there's an update to Ubuntu 16 and if I don't upgrade, but >> just click OK it exits. If I run sudo apt-get install texinfo it >> tells me I have the latest version. If I download the texinfo 6.1 >> tarball, extract it, and run configure. make and make install it >> does stuff, but makeinfo --version from my build directory still say >> I have 5.2. >> >> Anyone with any suggestions for getting and installing 6.1? > > I guess you just have to prepend `/usr/local/bin' to your path. > Usually, you can do this in your `~/.bashrc' file. > > Alternatively, assuming that you want a safe location for texinfo 6.1 > that won't get accidentally deleted or overwritten, you could try the > following. > > sudo mkdir /opt > > cd texinfo-6.1 > ./configure --prefix=/opt ... > make > make install > > cd lilypond > PATH=/opt/bin:$PATH ./configure ... > PATH=/opt/bin:$PATH make doc
I prefer to install stuff in conflict with system installations in a separate directory of their own, say /opt/texinfo . You do this by configuring TeXinfo with ./configure --prefix=/opt/texinfo and then sudo make install will install underneath. Then you need to configure LilyPond with MAKEINFO=/opt/texinfo/bin/makeinfo ./configure and usually this should make the LilyPond build procedure fine for working with this version of makeinfo. I do the same for Guile-1.8, with the magic incantation making the Guile installation known to LilyPond's configure is GUILE_CONFIG=/opt/guile-1.8/bin/guile-config ./configure since guile-config is used for teaching the build process everything about how to locate Guile components. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
