Re: GUB dblatex breaks compile

[Graham Percival]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 02:39:58PM +0100, Julien Rioux wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Graham Percival
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > The correct bugfix may be simply to update the version of dblatex
> > in GUB, but that is rarely as simple as it sounds.
> 
> Either fix your dblatex installation (it should depend on the package
> python-apt, but otherwise you can install python-apt manually)

GUB is an (almost)-complete separate beast.  It uses the base OS
to build gcc/make/etc, but thereafter it compiles (almost)
everything using only self-compiled programs.  The intent is that
it should be more reliable; as long as GUB's "bootstrap" (i.e. the
toolchain) compiles, it shouldn't matter what distro you're using.
It certainly doesn't use apt.

> or
> remove dblatex completely (in this case there was indeed a bug in
> lilypond master, but I pushed a fix at
> e8bb4dcdf244ccda234b63df0a78635cf066be4c and it was tested and
> verified).

The bottom line is that GUB could build release-2.15.29, but it
cannot build the current release/unstable.  This means that we
cannot produce any binary releases at the moment.

Maybe GUB needs to be tweaked so that it never looks for programs
on the host OS.  Maybe dblatex needs to be added to GUB (it's not
there right now).  Either of those options will take 1-10 hours.

This is unfortunate.

- Graham