Re: About lilypond's build problem with debian

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Ludovic RESLINGER schreef:
> On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 12:25:42PM +0200, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> > Thomas Bushnell BSG schreef:
> >
> > > I'm distressed that nobody has bothered to fix the bug since then.  In
> > > the thread on the mailing list you can see that if LILYPONDPREFIX is
> > > set correctly, the bug goes away.
> > This issue has been addressed in a more robust manner in the 2.9 series, 
> > and I would welcome a backport of the changes; we haven't found the time 
> > to do it.

> I tried to build lilypond 2.9.11, and I met the same build error:
>
> chmod 755 out/convert-ly
> /usr/bin/perl /home/lr/lilypond-2.9.11/buildscripts/out/help2man
> out/convert-ly > out/convert-ly.1
> help2man: can't get `--help' info from out/convert-ly
> make[1]: *** [out/convert-ly.1] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/lr/lilypond-2.9.11/scripts'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> I think there is another problem or actual correction in 2.9 series
> doesn't correct the bug.

Can you investigate in more detail; the help2man invocation is in

 stepmake/stepmake/help2man-rules.make

I need to know why exactly the convert-ly call is failing.

and FWIW, no I don't have lilypond installed at all; I always run from 
the development tree directly.


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