Building LilyPond outside the source tree

[Harmath Dénes]

Hi all,

I need to build LilyPond outside the source tree.
I check out LilyPond:

mkdir lilypond; cd lilypond
git init
git remote add -f -t master -m master origin git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git/
git checkout -b master origin/master

Creating configure:

./autogen.sh

Then, according to CG:

cd ..
mkdir lily-build && cd lily-build
<sourcedir>/configure --srcdir=<sourcedir>

configure complaints at the end:

Source directory already configured.  Please clean the source directory

     make -C <sourcedir> distclean

and rerun configure.

I do what it says:

make -C <sourcedir> distclean
<sourcedir>/configure --srcdir=<sourcedir>

This time, configure omits strange error messages at the end:

configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating config.make
config.status: creating config.hh
config.status: config.hh is unchanged
find: illegal option -- m
find: illegal option -- a
find: illegal option -- e
find: illegal option -- p
find: illegal option -- t
find: illegal option -- h
find: 2: No such file or directory
find: illegal option -- m
find: illegal option -- a
find: illegal option -- e
find: illegal option -- p
find: illegal option -- t
find: illegal option -- h
find: 2: No such file or directory
find: illegal option -- m
find: illegal option -- a
find: illegal option -- e
find: illegal option -- p
find: illegal option -- t
find: illegal option -- h
find: 3: No such file or directory
find: illegal option -- m
find: illegal option -- a
find: illegal option -- e
find: illegal option -- p
find: illegal option -- t
find: illegal option -- h
find: 3: No such file or directory
find: illegal option -- m
find: illegal option -- a
find: illegal option -- e
find: illegal option -- p
find: illegal option -- t
find: illegal option -- h
find: 4: No such file or directory
find: illegal option -- m
find: illegal option -- a
find: illegal option -- e
find: illegal option -- p
find: illegal option -- t
find: illegal option -- h
find: 4: No such file or directory

Type:
    make all       to build LilyPond
    make install   to install LilyPond
    make help      to see all possible targets

Edit local.make for local Makefile overrides.

Then I try:

make all

which results in:

/Users/thsoft/Development/lilypond-translation/GNUmakefile.in:39: 
make/stepmake.make: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `make/stepmake.make'.  Stop.

Could anyone else build LilyPond outside the source tree, and if yes, how?

Thanks in advance,
Dénes