Re: a new way to build LilyPond binary releases

[Mats Bengtsson]

On 2020-03-12 16:41, Jonas Hahnfeld wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 12.03.2020, 16:17 +0100 schrieb Mats Bengtsson:
> > I did a quick test of the lilypond-linux-x86_64-full.tar.gz version on a
> > reasonably large project (some 80+ page output string quartet score) and
> > it runs without any error messages and produces correct output, with the
> > exception of Unicode characters in titling that are completely garbled,
> > but that's perhaps a known issue.
> Works for me, at least title = "äöüß" works. But maybe that is related
> to the problem below...
Sorry for the noise, I had managed to ruin the UTF-8 encoding in my 
input file by mistake.
> > When untarring the package, I happened to notice that the tar ball
> > contains a number of soft links to
> > /home/jonas/lilypond-binaries/dependencies/install/fontconfig-2.13.1/...
> Ouch, TIL: "cp -r" and "tar" preserve symlinks, at least on Linux. The
> files are there in the packages for FreeBSD and zip archives can't
> handle them, so mingw is also fine. As a temporary matter, I've
> uploaded fontconfig-2.13.1-conf.tar.gz to the GitHub release. Could you
> extract that to lilypond/etc/fonts/conf.d and overwrite the links?

With a corrected input file, I get the correct output no matter if I 
keep the broken soft links or replace them by your new tar ball, at 
least I couldn't spot any difference.

By the way, I have also tested the non-full version of your package with 
the same successful result, all on Ubuntu 18.04TLS.

   /Mats