Re: Error compiling Lilypond 2.19.81

[Daniel Johnson]

Gentoo ships a patch that has enabled me to build against Guile 2.2.3 
and run successfully:

http://mirrors.evowise.com/gentoo-portage/media-sound/lilypond/files/lilypond-2.19.80-remove-ly-protect.patch


On 4/11/18 5:03 PM, Karlin High wrote:
> On 4/11/2018 3:48 PM, Peter Engelbert wrote:
> > In the meantime, I also noticed that for some reason Lilypond 2.18.2 
> > is not
> > in the Debian Stretch (9) repository for ARM, but it IS in the Debian
> > Jessie (8) repository. So I was able to install 2.18.2 for the 
> > raspberry pi
> > by adding the Jessie repository. Is it’s absence in the Stretch 
> > repository
> > an oversight, or is there some reason for it?
>
> LilyPond depends on Guile 1.8; more recent versions are incompatible 
> so far. Newer Debian versions have removed Guile 1.8. Here are a few 
> threads from the lilypond-devel list that may be of interest.
>
> LilyPond in Debian
> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2017-09/msg00042.html>
>
> compiling lilypond in debian stretch with self-compiled guile-1.8
> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2017-10/msg00098.html>