archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry or at
mirror site ftp://ftp.dante.de
+o MetaPost, if you want to use direct PostScript output.
+ Please note that tetex-0.4pl8 (included with Redhat
+ 5.x) does not include mfplain.mp, which is needed for
+ producing the scaleable font files.
+
4: RUNNING
-GNU LilyPond does use a lot of resources. For operation you
+GNU LilyPond does use a lot of resources. For operation you
need the following software
o TeX
o A PostScript printer and/or viewer (such as
- Ghostscript) is strongly recommended. Xdvi will show
- all embedded PostScript too if you have Ghostscript
+ Ghostscript) is strongly recommended. Xdvi will show
+ all embedded PostScript too if you have Ghostscript
installed.
-o GUILE 1.3, check out http://www.gnu.org/pro-
+o GUILE 1.3, check out http://www.gnu.org/pro-
grams/guile.html
-For running LilyPond successfully you have to help TeX and
-MetaFont find various files. The recommended way of doing
-so is adjusting the environment variables in the start-up
-scripts of your shell. An example is given here for the
+For running LilyPond successfully you have to help TeX and
+MetaFont find various files. The recommended way of doing
+so is adjusting the environment variables in the start-up
+scripts of your shell. An example is given here for the
Bourne shell:
export MFINPUTS="/usr/local/share/lilypond/mf:"
export TEXINPUTS="/usr/local/share/lilypond/tex:/usr/local/share/lilypond/ps:"
-The empty path component represents and MetaFont's default
-
-search paths. Scripts with the proper paths for the bourne
+The empty path component represents and MetaFont's default
+search paths. Scripts with the proper paths for the bourne
and C-shell respectively are generated in build-
-scripts/out/lilypond-profile and buildscripts/out/lilypond-
+scripts/out/lilypond-profile and buildscripts/out/lilypond-
login during compilation.
LilyPond is a hideously slow program. A fast CPU and plenty
5: WEBSITE
-If you want to auto-generate Lily's website, you'll need
+If you want to auto-generate Lily's website, you'll need
some additional conversion tools.
o xpmtoppm (from the Portable Bitmap Utilities) (For Red-
- Hat Linux users: it is included within the package
- libgr-progs). the original is at ftp://ftp.x.org/con-
+ Hat Linux users: it is included within the package
+ libgr-progs). the original is at ftp://ftp.x.org/con-
trib/utilities/netpbm-1mar1994.p1.tar.gz
-o pnmtopng, which is also in libgr-progs for RedHat. The
- original is at
+o pnmtopng, which is also in libgr-progs for RedHat. The
+ original is at
ftp://swrinde.nde.swri.edu/pub/png/applications/pnm-
topng-2.37.2.tar.gz.i
The version of pnmtopng that is distributed with RedHat
- 5.1 and 5.2 contains a bug: pnmtopng is dynamically
- linked to the wrong version of libpng. Recompile it
- from source, and make sure that the pnmtopng binary is
- linked statically to the libpng that is included in
+ 5.1 and 5.2 contains a bug: pnmtopng is dynamically
+ linked to the wrong version of libpng. Recompile it
+ from source, and make sure that the pnmtopng binary is
+ linked statically to the libpng that is included in
libgr. RedHat 6.0 does not have this problem.
tar xzf libgr-2.0.13.tar.gz
rm libpng.so*
make pnmtopng
- You can then install the new pnmtopng into
+ You can then install the new pnmtopng into
/usr/local/bin/
o Bib2html http://pertsserver.cs.uiuc.edu/~hull/bib2html.
- Which, in turn depends on man2html for proper
-
- installation. man2html can be had from http://askdon-
+ Which, in turn depends on man2html for proper installa-
+ tion. man2html can be had from http://askdon-
ald.ask.uni-karlsruhe.de/hppd/hpux/Network-
ing/WWW/Man2html-1.05.
- The website will build without this utility, but you
+ The website will build without this utility, but you
will not see our hypertextified bibliography.
TeTeX users should not forget to rerun texhash.
-You also have to install buildscripts/out/ps-to-gifs in a
+You also have to install buildscripts/out/ps-to-gifs in a
directory that is in the path.
6: CONFIGURING and COMPILING
/usr/local/share/lilypond/*
/usr/local/share/locale/{it,nl}/LC_MESSAGES/lilypond.mo
-The above assumes that you are root and have the GNU devel-
+The above assumes that you are root and have the GNU devel-
opment tools, and your make is GNU make. If this is not the
-case, you can adjust your environment variables to your
-
+case, you can adjust your environment variables to your
taste:
export CPPFLAGS="-I /home/me/my_include -DWEIRD_FOOBAR"
CPPFLAGS are the preprocessor flags.
The configure script is Cygnus configure, and it will accept
---help. If you are not root, you will probably have to make
+--help. If you are not root, you will probably have to make
it with a different --prefix option. Our favourite location
is
./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
-In this case, you will have to set up MFINPUTS, and TEXIN-
+In this case, you will have to set up MFINPUTS, and TEXIN-
PUTS accordingly.
-Since GNU LilyPond currently is beta, you are advised to
+Since GNU LilyPond currently is beta, you are advised to
also use
--enable-debugging
Enable debugging print routines (lilypond -D option)
--enable-optimise
- Set maximum optimisation: compile with -O2. This can
- be unreliable on some compiler/platform combinations
+ Set maximum optimisation: compile with -O2. This can
+ be unreliable on some compiler/platform combinations
(eg, DEC Alpha and PPC)
--enable-profiling
Compile with support for profiling.
--enable-config
- Output to a different configuration file. Needed for
+ Output to a different configuration file. Needed for
multi-platform builds
-All options are documented in the configure help The option
+All options are documented in the configure help The option
--enable-optimise is recommended for Real Life usage.
If you do
make all
-everything will be compiled, but nothing will be installed.
-The resulting binaries can be found in the subdirectories
+everything will be compiled, but nothing will be installed.
+The resulting binaries can be found in the subdirectories
out/ (which contain all files generated during compilation).
7: CONFIGURING FOR MULTIPLE PLATFORMS
If you want to compile LilyPond with different configuration
-settings, then, you can use the --enable-config option.
-Example: suppose I want to build with and without profil-
+settings, then, you can use the --enable-config option.
+Example: suppose I want to build with and without profil-
ing. Then I'd use the following for the normal build,
./configure --prefix=~ --disable-optimise --enable-checking
should do the trick.
If you are doing an upgrade, please remember to remove obso-
-lete .pk and .tfm files of the fonts. A script has been
+lete .pk and .tfm files of the fonts. A script has been
provided to do the work for you, see bin/clean-fonts.sh.
CAVEATS
-o The -O2 option triggers bugs on various platforms
- (PowerPC, Alpha). If you experience problems, you
+o The -O2 option triggers bugs on various platforms
+ (PowerPC, Alpha). If you experience problems, you
+
should first try turning off this.
o On PPC you need at least EGCS-1.1.2f.
9: REDHAT LINUX
-RedHat Linux users can compile an RPM. A spec file is in
-make/out/lilypond.spec, it is distributed along with the
+RedHat Linux users can compile an RPM. A spec file is in
+make/out/lilypond.spec, it is distributed along with the
sources.
You can make the rpm by issuing
rpm -tb lilypond-x.y.z.tar.gz
rpm -i /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/lilypond-x.y.z
-Precompiled i386 RedHat RPMS are available from
+Precompiled i386 RedHat RPMS are available from
http://linux.umbc.edu/software/lilypond/rpms/.
10: DEBIAN GNU/LINUX
-A Debian package is also available; contact Anthony Fok
-foka@debian.org. The build scripts are in the subdirectory
+A Debian package is also available; contact Anthony Fok
+foka@debian.org. The build scripts are in the subdirectory
debian/.
11: WINDOWS NT/95
projects / lilypond.git / blobdiff