2017-01-07 11:00 GMT+01:00 Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org>: > >>> Mhmm, compiling and installing guile 1.8 is not rocket science... >> >> Probably not, but ... >> >>> Have you tried that already? >> >> ... i am not familiar enough with all this packaging stuff to be >> confident about installing alternative versions to system installed >> packages ... > > You would install that locally – this is simpler than global locations > like `/usr/local'. > >> Where would I find suitable documentation or tutorials to do so >> (doesn't have to be explicitly about Guile 1.8 vs. 2 of course)? > > It's rather simple. > > cd ~ > mkdir gnu-packages > wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.8.tar.gz > tar xzvf guile-1.8.8.tar.gz > cd guile-1.8.8 > ./configure --disable-error-on-warning --prefix=`pwd`/../gnu-packages > > Check the `configure' output carefully (which gets logged in file > `config.log'); it tells you what you have to install as prerequisites > besides a C compiler. If you get a failure, siply restart the > `configure' script (with all options) until it succeeds. Finally, do > > make > make install > > That's it. If you configure and build lilypond, do it with > > PATH=~/gnu-packages/bin:$PATH ./configure ... > > so that `guile-config' from version 1.8.8 gets found before the one > from the OS. > > > Werner
To build lilypond we require guile-xx-dev (don't remember if we require guile-xx-libs as well). Will the method described above make those files available? Cheers, Harm _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
