Re: Lilypond's build-dependency on GNOME

[Graham Percival]

Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> The file input/regression/backend-svg.ly (which is run by make test) 
> explicitly calls inkscape for EPS->SVG conversion and fails the whole test 
> build if inkscape is not installed (without any meaningful error message!). 
> Now, inkscape is a GNOME application, so running "make test" now implicitly 
> depends on all gnome libraries to be installed, which is not necessarily the 
> case on lots of machines. 
>
> Can't we use pstoedit instead?
>   pstoedit -f plot-svg my.eps my.svg
> should also convert an .eps file to the .svg file, without dragging in the 
> huge gnome dependency.

Does this work on your system?  I get this:

address@hidden:~/tmp$ pstoedit -f plot-svg foo.preview.eps bar.svg
pstoedit: version 3.44 / DLL interface 108 (build Mar 11 2007 - release 
build - g++ 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) : Copyright 
(C) 1993 - 2006 Wolfgang Glunz
unable to map [c3] noteheads.s2unable to map [c3] clefs.Gunable to map 
[c3] accidentals.mirroredflatunable to map [c3] timesig.C44unable to map 
[c3] noteheads.s2unable to map [c3] noteheads.s2unable to map [c3] 
address@hidden:~/tmp$


(this is a slightly out-of-date debian/testing box)

Cheers,
- Graham