Re: 2.19.22 not building

[David Kastrup]

Thomas Spuhler <address@hidden> writes:

> On Friday, July 10, 2015 12:42:32 AM David Kastrup wrote:
>> Thomas Spuhler <address@hidden> writes:
>> > On Friday, July 10, 2015 12:28:53 AM you wrote:
>> >> ice-9/eval.scm is a file from GUILE 2.0.  LilyPond requires compilation
>> >> with GUILE 1.8.8.  LilyPond would not even have made it across the
>> >> configure stage with GUILE 2.0 without particular options and care, and
>> >> it never would have run.  So I doubt that there is something new with
>> >> LilyPond that is causing a problem for you.  Either this never worked in
>> >> this manner, or the person responsible for getting it to run previously
>> >> should immediately report for duty at LilyPond central since over _here_
>> >> GUILE 2.0 is still an unsolved problem.
>> > 
>> > David, version 2.19.21 actually built. I haven't done any testing, but
>> > will.
>> > 
>> > There is a strong push for Guile 2 from our community (lilypond being
>> > the last package still
>> > requiring? guile-1.8
>> > So I need strong arguments for no using guile-2 such as the package is
>> > not working.
>> 
>> Well, the current situation for guile-2 definitely is "the package is
>> not working".  There are quite fewer impediments to "is not working"
>> than there were a year ago: there has been active work in that area.
>> But those that remain are not trivial.
>
> I see the musicxml's don't convert

Unmodified LilyPond should not even start up due to encoding problems.
This may depend on the actual version of GUILE 2.x however.

-- 
David Kastrup