release: 1.3.153

[lilypond.git] / INSTALL.txt

diff --git a/INSTALL.txt b/INSTALL.txt
index 088db01f8dee85f5192233e98347ac948de2a088..69302af91e2aa34daac0f30dc1adb3bb4b555ce6 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL.txt
+++ b/INSTALL.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ INSTALL - compiling and installing GNU LilyPond
   Emacs mode
   Compiling for distributions
     Red Hat Linux
+    LinuxPPC
     SuSE
+    Slackware
     Mandrake
     Debian GNU/Linux
   Problems
@@ -198,7 +200,7 @@ issuing
 
        make web-doc
 
-   Building the website requires  some additional tools:
+   Building the website requires some additional tools:
 
    * xpmtoppm (from the netpbm package: the Portable Bitmap Utilities).
      The original is at the netpbm FTP site
@@ -218,6 +220,11 @@ issuing
      The website will build without bib converter utility, but you will
      not see our hypertextified bibliography.
 
+   * texinfo (a development release) The documentation will build with
+     texinfo-4.0, but if you want split html pages, you're best off
+     using the lates pretest version from texinfo-4.0b
+     (ftp://texinfo.org/texinfo/pretests/texinfo-4.0b.tar.gz) or
+     texinfo-4.0b (ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo-4.0b.tar.gz)
 
 Building  LilyPond
 ==================
@@ -286,13 +293,14 @@ Red Hat Linux
 -------------
 
    Red Hat 7.0 i386 RPMS are available from
-`ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/RedHat/'.
+`ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/binaries/'.
 
    You can also compile them yourself.  A spec file is in
 `make/out/redhat.spec'. This file is distributed along with the
 sources.  You can make the rpm by issuing
 
-       rpm -tb lilypond-x.y.z.tar.gz
+             tar xfz lilypond-x.y.z.tar.gz
+       rpm -bb lilypond-x.y.z/make/out/redhat.spec
        rpm -i /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/lilypond-x.y.z
 
    For running on a Red Hat system you need these packages: guile,
@@ -303,20 +311,48 @@ addition to the those needed for running: glibc-devel, gcc-c++,
 libstdc++-devel, guile-devel, flex, bison, texinfo, tetex-devel, groff,
 libgr-progs.
 
+   Warning
+
+   There appears to be a problem with the Xdvi shipped with RedHat 7.1.
+Symptoms: Xdvi responds very sluggishly or hangs while viewing lilypond
+output. The cause for this problem is unknown; you are advised to
+recompile Xdvi from source.
+
+LinuxPPC
+--------
+
+   Some LinuxPPC RPMS should available from
+`ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/binaries/'.
+
+   A LinuxPPC RPM can be made using the `redhat.spec' file.
+
 SuSE
 ----
 
-   You can also compile them yourself.  A spec file is in
-`make/out/suse.spec'. This file is distributed along with the sources.
+   Some SUSE RPMS should available from
+`ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/binaries/'.
+
+   You can also compile a RPM for SUSE yourself.  A spec file is in
+`make/out/suse.spec', see the instructions for building the RedHat RPM.
 
    You must have the following packages: guile tcsh tetex te_latex
 te_kpath te_mpost libpng python gpp libgpp gettext autoconf netpbm
 libnetpb gs_serv gs_lib gs_fonts guile
 
+Slackware
+---------
+
+   No precompiled packages for Slackware are available.
+
+   Problems have been reported with Slackware 7.0; apparently, it ships
+with a faulty compiler. Do not compile LilyPond with -O2 on this
+platform.
+
 Mandrake
 --------
 
-   [TODO]
+   Some binaries are available at rpmfind.net. Refer to
+`ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/contrib/RPMS/'.
 
 Debian GNU/Linux
 ----------------
@@ -326,6 +362,21 @@ using apt-get as root:
 
        apt-get install lilypond1.3
 
+   Debian's tex installation is a bit short on memory, you may want to
+increase it like this:
+     --- /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf.dpkg     Sun Jan 28 14:12:14 2001
+     +++ /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf  Fri Apr 27 11:09:35 2001
+     @ -384,8 +384,8 @
+      main_memory.context = 1500000
+      main_memory.mpost = 1000000
+      main_memory = 263000 % words of inimemory available; also applies to inimf&mp
+     -extra_mem_top = 0    % extra high memory for chars, tokens, etc.
+     -extra_mem_bot = 0    % extra low memory for boxes, glue, breakpoints, etc.
+     +extra_mem_top = 100000    % extra high memory for chars, tokens, etc.
+     +extra_mem_bot = 100000    % extra low memory for boxes, glue, breakpoints, etc.
+     
+      obj_tab_size.context = 256000
+
    Alternatively, visit
 
    * http://packages.debian.org/lilypond