Re: Compiling lilypond 2.0.2 failed

[Mats Bengtsson]

I recommend to use a precompiled RPM. As far as I can see, there's
one available at http://lilypond.org/download/binaries/RedHat-9/
even though it's not linked from the web page.

Did you get any warnings or errors when running configure?

help2man tries to run the command midi2ly to create the man page,
so your error message indicates that midi2ly doesn't work as expected.
What does 'scripts/out/midi2ly -h' say?

You could try to run
make -k
so that make doesn't stop its processing after the first error.

  /Mats

Pierre Lorenzon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a new user of LilyPond and tried to install
> version 2.0.2 which is mentioned to be a stable version.
>
> So I downloaded the tar.gz archive, untar it,
> go to directory which has been created and
> execute the commands 
> # ./configure
> # make
>
> I got the following error :
>
> help2man: can't get `--help' info from out/midi2ly
>
> I think that this is not an important error
> because only the building of a man page failed,
> but it stops the general building process.
>
> I tried to inhibit this part of the building process
> but not successfully.
>
> I must mention that I took care of installing all
> the required packages whith recent versions as
> required in the installation section of the
> web page. I am on a linux platform whith Red Hat 9.
>
> I must say that I tried to install earlier versions of LilyPond
>   an got various errors.
>
> Bests
>
> Pierre
>
>
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