GUB on Ubuntu post 10.04 LTS release

Graham Percival suggested trying GUB on a more recent Linux release.

Created x86₆₄ VM using VirtualBox

Download Ubuntu 12.04 install iso

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server

09:30: Started download of 12.04 iso image
12:30: Download complete

Boot VM with install iso

16:32: Ubuntu install started
16:35: Installing the base system
17:22: Installation continues
(later): Installation completed.

Aptitude on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to update it

23:11: Aptitude started. Kernel update is waiting.
23:43: Still downloading updates
23:59: Rebooting after updates completed
00:00: Logged in and confirmed kernel updated

Attempt GUB build on 12.04

00:07

Started apt-get install for git and emacs.

00:16

Completed.

00:18

Started git clone

git clone git://github.com/colinghall/gub.git

00:21

Git clone completed

00:25

Attempted make help but make isn't installed.

$ make help
The program 'make' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install make
address@hidden:~/gub$ sudo apt-get install make

00:26

Make installed. Try make help again

$ make bootstrap
python bin/gub  --platform=tools git
calculating dependencies
 *** Stage: download (make, tools)
downloading http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/make/make-3.81.tar.gz -> /home/colin/gub/downloads/make/
....................

00:26

I wonder if I can skip another monster download session by copying archives from the 32-bit VM?

00:32

Disconnected from screen session, closed the 64-bit VM.

10:44

Monday 4th June

10:45

Opened (resumed) the lilydev64 VM, ssh in, re-attached to screen session

10:49

Small shell script to do the whole build

#!/bin/sh
wget http://lilypond.org/download/binaries/test-output/lilypond-2.15.38-1.test-output.tar.bz2
mv lilypond-2.15.38-1.test-output.tar.bz2 gub/regtests/
touch gub/regtests/ignore
time ( cd gub && make bootstrap && make LILYPOND_BRANCH=release/unstable lilypond)

10:55

Started wget of regtest tarball

10:59

Done. Installing tarball

11:01

Issued command to make bootstrap and then make lilypond

11:02

Failed. Missing gcc. I'm not using LilyDev this time so I have to install all the dependencies.

11:04

List of build dependencies here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/contributor/requirements-for-compiling-lilypond

11:05

Let's try build-dep lilypond

11:06

apt-get for 177 packages started.

11:08

Apt is running ok

From:	Colin Hall
Subject:	GUB on recent Ubuntu release
Date:	Mon, 4 Jun 2012 11:15:34 +0100
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