Re: Libguile17 dependency issue - attention maintainer

[David Stacey <drstacey@tiscali.co.uk>]

On 12/04/15 11:03, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 2/21/2015 12:19 AM, David Stacey wrote:
>> On 20/02/15 15:42, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> unfortunately it turns out that our guile (and lilypond) maintainer has
>>> left us, so the packages are orphaned.  Jan's last version of guile was
>>> 1.8.7-2 for 32 bit.
>>>
>>> Does anybody have fun to take over maintainership of guile or lilypond?
>>
>> First, let me say that I have no intention of maintaining lilypond - I
>> am aware that even replying to this e-mail puts me in danger of
>> acquiring another couple of packages ;-) I absolutely love lilypond and
>> would like it to stay within Cygwin if at all possible, but I don't have
>> the time right now to take on a package that is going to be a little
>> problematic.
>>
>> I had a go at building lilypond for x86_64 about 18 months ago, but
>> didn't get very far. I managed to produce an executable, but 'make doc'
>> and 'make check' both failed, so I didn't have any confidence in the
>> binary produced. My need for a working lilypond exceeded the tinkering
>> time available, so I just used Fedora.
>>
>> I've tidied up the cygport file this evening, and this (along with a
>> small patch) is attached. Hopefully this will be a starting point for a
>> prospective maintainer with the time to do it justice.
>>
>> Dave.
>
> Thanks Dave,
> for the starting point.
> I used that as base for the 64 bit package just released.
>
> Removing the cygwin specific usage of
>   cygwin_conv_to_posix_path / cygwin_conv_path
> did the work. Make check passed on 64bit, and make doc fails
> on a corner case, most of the HTML documentation was built.

Well done - you've already got further than I managed. I have a soft 
spot for lilypond, so I'm really pleased that you've adopted it - I'd 
hate to see it removed from Cygwin. Next time I update my 64-bit 
installation I'll give it a test.

Dave.


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