release: 1.5.27

[lilypond.git] / INSTALL.txt

diff --git a/INSTALL.txt b/INSTALL.txt
index 176a50e06294a188b13bc3f047654e60773d3ee2..058e0d97e771b06880d166e4fba5b2ed33cb6c4e 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL.txt
+++ b/INSTALL.txt
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ INSTALL - compiling and installing GNU LilyPond
     Debian GNU/Linux
   Problems
     FLex-2.5.4a and gcc-3.0
+    Python-2.1[.1]
     Linux-2.4.0, Guile-1.4 -with-threads
     NetBSD
     Solaris:
@@ -128,9 +129,10 @@ Compilation
    * A reasonably new C++ compiler:  EGCS 1.1, GCC 2.95.2 or newer.
      Check out the gcc site (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/).
 
-   * Python 1.5, Check out the python website (http://www.python.org).
+   * Python (version 1.5 or newer; not 2.1.x) Check out the python
+     website (http://www.python.org).
 
-   * GUILE 1.3.4 or newer,  check out the GUILE webpage
+   * GUILE 1.4 or newer,  check out the GUILE webpage
      (http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html).  Version 1.4 is
      recommended for better performance.
 
@@ -388,18 +390,28 @@ running `apt-get' as root:
 
    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 @
+     --- texmf.cnf.orig        Sun Dec 16 23:47:07 2001
+     +++ texmf.cnf     Sun Dec 16 23:46:34 2001
+     @ -411,8 +411,8 @
       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.
+     +extra_mem_top = 1000000    % extra high memory for chars, tokens, etc.
+     +extra_mem_bot = 1000000    % extra low memory for boxes, glue, breakpoints, etc.
      
-      obj_tab_size.context = 256000
+      obj_tab_size.context = 300000
+     
+     @ -430,7 +430,7 @
+      % Max number of characters in all strings, including all error messages,
+      % help texts, font names, control sequences.  These values apply to TeX and MP.
+      pool_size.context = 750000
+     -pool_size = 125000
+     +pool_size = 250000
+      % Minimum pool space after TeX/MP's own strings; must be at least
+      % 25000 less than pool_size, but doesn't need to be nearly that large.
+      string_vacancies.context = 45000
 
    You could also export `extra_mem_top' and `extra_mem_bot' as
 environment variables if you do not want to or cannot modify
@@ -507,6 +519,12 @@ LilyPond with gcc-3.0 you may do:
 
    Note that this is fixed in Debian/unstable for flex >= 2.5.4a-13.
 
+Python-2.1[.1]
+--------------
+
+   Regular expressions are broken in Python 2.1.[.1], either upgrade or
+downgrade python.
+
 Linux-2.4.0, Guile-1.4 -with-threads
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