@section Obtaining
You can get the latest version of LilyPond at
-@uref{ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/,ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/}. Refer to the links
-document for mirror sites.
+@uref{ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/,
+ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/}.
+
@emph{If you upgrade by patching do remember to rerun autoconf after
applying the patch}.
If you do not want to download the entire archive for each version, the
safest method for upgrading is to use @file{xdelta}, see
-@uref{ftp://ftp.xcf.berkeley.edu/pub/xdelta/}
+@uref{ftp://ftp.xcf.berkeley.edu/pub/xdelta/}.
The following command produces @file{lilypond-1.1.55.tar.gz} from
@file{lilypond-1.1.54} identical (up to compression dates) to the .55 on
Check out
@uref{ftp://ftp.python.org} or @uref{ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/python}.
-@item GUILE 1.3, check out @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html,http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html}.
+@item GUILE 1.3.4, check out @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html,http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html}.
@item GNU make.
Check out @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/make/,ftp://ftp.gnu.org/make/}.
@item A PostScript printer and/or viewer (such as Ghostscript) is strongly
recommended. Xdvi will show all embedded PostScript too if you have
Ghostscript installed.
-@item GUILE 1.3, check out @uref{http://www.gnu.org/programs/guile.html,http://www.gnu.org/programs/guile.html}
+@item GUILE 1.3.4, check out @uref{http://www.gnu.org/programs/guile.html,http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/}
@end itemize
For running LilyPond successfully you have to help TeX and MetaFont
@end itemize
-@section configuring and compiling
+@section Configuring and compiling
to install GNU LilyPond, simply type:
@example
resulting binaries can be found in the subdirectories @file{out/} (which
contain all files generated during compilation).
-@section configuring for multiple platforms
+@section Configuring for multiple platforms
If you want to compile LilyPond with different configuration settings,
then, you can use the @code{--enable-config} option. Example: suppose I
@section Windows NT/95
-Separate instructions on building for W32 are available; See file
-README-W32, included with the sources.
+Separate instructions on building for W32 are available; See the files
+in @file{Documentation/ntweb/}, included with the sources.
@section Problems
-
For help and questions use @email{help-gnu-music@@gnu.org} and
@email{gnu-music-discuss@@gnu.org}. Please consult the faq before
mailing your problems.
Known bugs that are not LilyPond's fault are documented here.
-@unnumbered All platforms
-@table @bullet
-@item GUILE 1.3.2
-Guile 1.3.2 is buggy in several respects. Do not use it for LilyPond.
-@end table
@unnumbered LinuxPPC Bugs:
-@table @bullet
-@item R5, egcs-1.1.2-12c
-Egcs-1.1.2-12c (stock LinuxPPC R5) has a serious bug, upgrade to
+@itemize
+@item egcs-1.1.2-12c (stock LinuxPPC R5) has a serious bug, upgrade to
fixed in egcs-1.1.2-12f or gcc-2.95-0a, @uref{ftp://dev.linuxppc.org/users/fsirl/R5/RPMS/ppc/}
-@item R4, egcs-1.0.2
-All compiling with @code{-O2} is suspect, in particular guile-1.3, and
+@item egcs-1.0.2 (LinuxPPC R4):
+all compiling with @code{-O2} is suspect, in particular guile-1.3, and
Lily herself will break.
-@end table
+@end itemize
@unnumbered Linux-i386
-@table @bullet
+@itemize
@item SuSE6.2 and similar platforms (glibc 2.1, libstdc++ 2.9.0)
Lily will crash during parsing (which suggests a C++ library
Note that this only happens on some computers with the said platform.
-@item GUILE
-A binary RPM of Guile 1.3 has been distributed from the LilyPond ftp
-site. This binary was made in RedHat 5.x, and it will fail if this
-RPM is used with RedHat 6.x.
-
-
@item libg++ 2.7
LilyPond occasionally crashes while parsing the initialisation files.
This behaviour has been observed with machines that have old libg++
versions (LinuxPPC feb '98, RedHat 4.x).
-@end table
+@end itemize
@unnumbered Solaris:
-@table @bullet
+@itemize
@item Sparc64/Solaris 2.6, GNU make-3.77
GNU make-3.77 is buggy on this platform, upgrade to 3.78.1 or newer.
@item Sparc64/Solaris 2.6, ld
Not yet resolved.
-@end table
+@end itemize
@unnumbered AIX
-@table @bullet
+@itemize
@item AIX 4.3 ld
The following is from the gcc install/SPECIFIC file.
LDFLAGS='-Wl,-bbigtoc' ./configure
@end example
-@end table
-
-
-@section Authors
-
-@email{hanwen@@cs.uu.nl, Han-Wen Nienhuys}
-
-@email{janneke@@gnu.org, Jan Nieuwenhuizen}
-
-In case of problems, please use the mailing list for help.
+@end itemize
-Have fun!
@bye
+