Re: 2 lilypond build issues

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Mike Castle <address@hidden> writes:

> Second, it would be extremely nice if lilypond's configure would handle
> building in a separate build directory.

> This is standard practice for most other GNU programs, and makes it nice to
> be able to share sources for multiple platforms.  It also makes it easier
> for those of use that have created a build infrastructure that expects GNU
> software to build like this.

Of course, it should.

> tar xzf lilypond-1.5.69.tar.gz
> mkdir lilypond-1.5.69-x86-build
> cd lilypond-1.5.69-x86-build
> ../lilypond-1.5.69/configure
> make

> With lilypond, it fails in mysterious ways.

There was quite some hairyness wrt these --srcdir builds, and I also
fixed some problems after .69.

But I'm using something like this for the Cygwin builds, eg.  so you
may just have been unlucky.  Could you try 1.5.70 or latest CVS?

Jan.

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