Re: 2.19.22 not building

[David Kastrup]

Thomas Spuhler <address@hidden> writes:

> On Monday, July 13, 2015 10:31:18 AM David Kastrup wrote:
>> Thomas Spuhler <address@hidden> writes:
>> > On Friday, July 10, 2015 02:38:14 AM David Kastrup wrote:
>> >> Thomas Spuhler <address@hidden> writes:
>> >> > On Friday, July 10, 2015 01:43:22 AM David Kastrup wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> But for packaging, GUILE 2.0 is definitely the wrong choice at the
>> >> current point of time.
>> > 
>> > I am coming back to Guile-2. I upgraded to vers 2.0.11 and rebuild
>> > lily 2.19.21. I still cannot
>> > build 2.19.22. It chokes at the documentation.
>> 
>> That's more or less chance.  Neither version will pass the regtests.
>> 
>> > But lilypond 2.19.21 (built with guile-2.0.11) compiles the testfile
>> > lily-0e752a19.ly
>> > looks good, no crash, nothing special
>> 
>> Oh good grief.  Distributing some build of software on the rationale
>> that it happens to compile some small file without crashing is not
>> solid engineering.

> Good news, version 2.19.24 is the first one that built since
> vers. 2.19.21 Thanks for fixing it.

The last seriously GUILE-related change has been made in version 2.19.23
already (issue 4462).  However, no GUILE 2 related changes have been
made since considerably before 2.19.20.

So any changes you may have witnessed are not the outcome of "fixes" on
the LilyPond side and are more likely than not of temporary duration.
You are still faring better here than the LilyPond developers
themselves.

-- 
David Kastrup