Re: The utter impossibility of building a devel version RPM

[Daniel Jensen]

>> Is libgr-progs still necessary? Or does Lilypond work equally well with
>> netpbm and netpbm-progs? That seems to be the case
>
> Yes, most probably, we're using those on Debian.

Libgr-progs is a relic of the past- see changelog for libgr:
  Wed Oct 15 1997 Donnie Barnes <address@hidden>
- obsoletes netpbm now

RH decided to return to the mainstream and use (and help develop) netpbm
and netpbm-progs for the 7.x series and plans to continue using them. RH
versions which use libgr-progs don't have an acceptable guile version,
tetex package, or texinfo (unless the enduser rolled their own). 
However, the new website docs show no dependency here at all; netpbm and 
netpbm-progs are needed for RH7 to compile lilypond. (Not to mention the 
fact that pktrace and its dependencies are now required, not "[OPTIONAL]".)

> What about Guile?  Mandrake has now three packages, so is seems.

RH still has two- guile and guile-devel- which cover the same range as
Mandrake's libguile, guile, and libguile-devel. They appear to be
compatible (libguile+guile on Mandrake roughly the same as guile on RH, 
libguile-devel roughly the same as guile-devel), although Mandrake's 
three packages are roughly a half-megabyte larger than RH's two.

One other thing- I tried removing MAKE_PFA_FILES=1, got this error, 
decided it must be something I needed to upgrade Python for (so I now 
have both 1.5.2-35 and 2.2-2), and got it again:

Traceback (innermost last):
  File ".././scripts/lilypond-book.py", line 1358, in ?
  File ".././scripts/lilypond-book.py", line 1278, in do_file
  File ".././scripts/lilypond-book.py", line 1051, in compile_all_files
  File ".././scripts/lilypond-book.py", line 977, in system
  File ".././scripts/lilypond-book.py", line 546, in error
Exiting.
make[1]: *** [out-www/regression-test.texi] Error 1
rm out-www/index.texi
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/lilypond-1.5.36/Documentation'make: *** [web-doc] 
Error 2
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.43328 (%build)

However, the parmesan files seem to not be a problem in 1.5.36.
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