Re: LilyPond 2.20 or 2.21 for Linux

[Mason Hock]

On 03/30, Urs Liska wrote:
> >I'm not aware of any reason it wouldn't work on
> >18.04.
> 
> except for the "small" issue of 18.04 not having  Guile 1.8 anymore...

I hadn't been aware of this. It does complicate things a bit.

Since Guile 1.8 is also needed for Lilypond 2.18.2, I figured Ubuntu
18.04 must have some way of using Guile 1.8 to build Lilypond. It looks
like the Lilypond source package includes Guile 1.8 as a tarball.[1] I
don't have access to an 18.04 system so I cannot test this, but
something like the following might work:

$ wget 
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/l/lilypond/lilypond_2.18.2.orig-guile18.tar.gz
$ tar xf lilypond_2.18.2.orig-guile18.tar.gz
$ cd guile-1.8-1.8.8+1.orig/
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

Mason

[1] https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/bionic/lilypond

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