Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

[David Kastrup]

Cameron Horsburgh <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:50:23PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>> 
>>     make && sudo make install
>
>> 
>> does not work.
>
> These work fine for me. They don't make much in the way of
> documentation (which is a good thing, AFAIAC), but these two commands
> install lilypond for me perfectly well from whatever git sends me.
>
>
>> It is a bit disappointing since the info documentation with images is
>> essential for really getting moving smoothly with Lilypond, and the
>> procedure for producing them is so broken or obfuscate that none, I
>> repeat none of _any_ lilypond precompilated versions that I know of
>> carries them, and there is no way even a clever user could be expected
>> to arrive at usable docs.
>> 
>
> Hmm. I'm certainly not clever (especially about these things) but I
> went to my top level directory, pull the latest git, and typed
>
> make && sudo make install && sudo make info-install 
>
> When it finished I went to the lilypond node in emacs info and found
> perfectly good images in perfectly useable docs. Maybe cleverness is
> overrated. My point is that the recipe worked for me as advertised
> with no problems whatsoever.

(/usr/bin/python /home/tmp/lilypond/stepmake/bin/install.py -c -d 
/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.13.0/fonts/otf/ || true) && /usr/bin/python 
/home/tmp/lilypond/stepmake/bin/install.py -c -c -m 644 ./out/emmentaler-11.otf 
./out/emmentaler-13.otf ./out/emmentaler-14.otf ./out/emmentaler-16.otf 
./out/emmentaler-18.otf ./out/emmentaler-20.otf ./out/emmentaler-23.otf 
./out/emmentaler-26.otf ./out/aybabtu.otf ./out/CenturySchL-Ital.otf 
./out/CenturySchL-BoldItal.otf ./out/CenturySchL-Roma.otf 
./out/CenturySchL-Bold.otf /usr/local/share/lilypond/2.13.0/fonts/otf/ &&   
(/usr/bin/python /home/tmp/lilypond/stepmake/bin/install.py -c -d 
/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.13.0/fonts/svg/ || true) && /usr/bin/python 
/home/tmp/lilypond/stepmake/bin/install.py -c -c -m 644 ./out/emmentaler-11.svg 
./out/emmentaler-13.svg ./out/emmentaler-14.svg ./out/emmentaler-16.svg 
./out/emmentaler-18.svg ./out/emmentaler-20.svg ./out/emmentaler-23.svg 
./out/emmentaler-26.svg ./out/aybabtu.svg 
/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.13.0/fonts/svg/ &&   (/usr/bin/python 
/home/tmp/lilypond/stepmake/bin/install.py -c -d 
/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.13.0/fonts/type1/ || true) && /usr/bin/python 
/home/tmp/lilypond/stepmake/bin/install.py -c -c -m 644 ./out/feta11.pfb 
./out/feta13.pfb ./out/feta14.pfb ./out/feta16.pfb ./out/feta18.pfb 
./out/feta20.pfb ./out/feta23.pfb ./out/feta26.pfb ./out/feta-braces-a.pfb 
./out/feta-braces-b.pfb ./out/feta-braces-c.pfb ./out/feta-braces-d.pfb 
./out/feta-braces-e.pfb ./out/feta-braces-f.pfb ./out/feta-braces-g.pfb 
./out/feta-braces-h.pfb ./out/feta-braces-i.pfb ./out/feta-alphabet11.pfb 
./out/feta-alphabet13.pfb ./out/feta-alphabet14.pfb ./out/feta-alphabet16.pfb 
./out/feta-alphabet18.pfb ./out/feta-alphabet20.pfb ./out/feta-alphabet23.pfb 
./out/feta-alphabet26.pfb ./out/parmesan11.pfb ./out/parmesan13.pfb 
./out/parmesan14.pfb ./out/parmesan16.pfb ./out/parmesan18.pfb 
./out/parmesan20.pfb ./out/parmesan23.pfb ./out/parmesan26.pfb 
/usr/local/share/lilypond/2.13.0/fonts/type1/ &&  true
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/tmp/lilypond/stepmake/bin/install.py", line 78, in <module>
    shutil.copy2 (f, dest)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/shutil.py", line 96, in copy2
    copyfile(src, dst)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/shutil.py", line 51, in copyfile
    fsrc = open(src, 'rb')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: './out/CenturySchL-Ital.otf'
make[1]: *** [local-install-outfiles] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/tmp/lilypond/mf'
make: *** [install] Error 2

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David Kastrup