Lilypond Support

emeraldimp · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 6

Hi guys!

Since it looks like Aron Griffis has either left or doesn't care about Lilypond anymore, I'm suggesting that we do something about it.

I've never maintained a package before, but I'm willing to give it a try if I can have some help, especially testers, and also ideas for how it's to go into portage.

Here's my idea for Lilypond:

Slots. There are four versions of Lilypond, currently. 2.2.6 (ancient), 2.4.6 (old), 2.6.* (stable), 2.7.* (devel). I have, on more than one occasion, had need of an older version, especially using files from Mutopia (lily-convert has never worked well for me), so I think this makes sense. I think we can have 'emerge lilypond' go to the latest stable, and keep the others with version numbers. Thoughts?

Please respond!

Thanks,

Geoff

Ooblick · n00b Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 34

That sounds great - I've been hoping lilypond would come back to life at some point. It makes me laugh that you list 2.2 as "ancient" yet the current stable in portage is 2.0.3

I've never had the call to require more than one version of lilypond, but it sounds interesting.

Good luck in getting lilypond back into a fully maintained status.

richardash1981 · Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 9:04 pm Post subject:

This is also a blocker for denemo (GTK front end) as it produces 2.6.x output in it's current version (also not in portage).

FishB8 · l33t Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Posts: 806

I agree.

However, I will conceed that Lillypond can be a PITA to work with. It's a moving target. Some of the dependencies for the more recent versions of Lillypond are also not available in portage yet. Many of which are moving targets themselves. (CVS versions of packages or unofficial releases...)

Add to that the fact that reworking it's install paths so that it installs in a sane manner is also a mess.

But I agree, this packages needs updated badly. If not, it's going to cause problems for noteedit as well.
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richardash1981 · Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 7:49 pm Post subject:

I know what you mean - new ebuild for mftrace (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110743) had to be produced to get it to compile at all. The paths seem to have got a little saner - the custom stuff in the old ebuild for vim syntax now gets done by make install.
2.6.4 ebuild attached to bugzilla: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97574

Does anyone know why it's under media-sound - surely app-text with tex and friends would be more logical, as the one thing it doesn't do is make noise!

richardash1981 · Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 12:12 am Post subject:

OK, ebuilds work, but slotting them is being a pain. I can get as far as /usr/bin/lilypond-2.6, and then create /usr/bin/lilypond as a symlink to the most recent version with alternatives_auto_makesym() from alternatives.ecalss, and split the /usr/share stuff according to slot with arguments to einstall, the problem is the stuff going into /usr/share/info and /usr/share/man which I can't see how to slot.

There are also several other executeables and scripts in /usr/bin that aren't getting versioned correctly by configure. Anyone suggest where to read up on making slotted ebuilds work?

emeraldimp · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 6

Unfortunately, no. But I thought I'd reply so you'd know it wasn't dead. ;-)

Thanks for you work on it so far... much farther than I got!

Kelsin · n00b Joined: 12 Feb 2005 Posts: 2

I'm using lilypond atm for a school project and just moved back to gentoo from Ubuntu. I needed it and tried every ebuild posted and couldn't get the thing to run correctly. I finally just used the .package autopackage on the website and that worked fine for now

I'm looking forward to when anything past 2.6 is stable in portage and I will be installing from that

Thanks for your guys work, hopefully this can be put back into the tree soon!

richardash1981 · Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 1:15 am Post subject:

Grab a 2.7.x ebuild off the bug - I've been using this for a while now and seems fine. 2.6 is being a pain even with slotting stripped out - not clear why. Not had a lot of time to play as machine was very busy encoding video and font builds take forever.
I know the 2.6.4 build doesn't work as it stands, although if 2.6.4 and 2.7.x are both on then it seems to...

sundialsvc4 · Guru Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 426

I'd really like to see Lilypond working. The current ebuild doesn't compile on my (current, up-to-date) system. It really does a great job with music formatting and I'd like to use it with Rosegarden.

herckb · n00b Joined: 30 Apr 2005 Posts: 4

Is there already any progress with lilypond, because there is some time passes since august. I am ready to help if anyone wants help. I did see some messages about the 2.7 ebuild but it did not reach portage yet. When can we expect the new ebuild in portage ?

thanks

psdasilva · Apprentice Joined: 03 Sep 2005 Posts: 207

What's happening?!
No lilypond for gentoo?!

The most I got was an ebuild from "bugs" forum.
Renaming it, I could emerge 2.7.25 but *no* docs.

I also have problems with noteedit. It emerged ok
but I cannot get the keyboard to work!

Pafnoutios · n00b Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Posts: 15 Location: Spokane, WA

I think the docs either require a USE flag or a separate package (unless that's broken).
I copies a 2.6.4 ebuild off the bug report and changed its name to 2.6.5 and it works fine. mftrace-1.17 is in Portage and it worked for 2.6.5.
I didn't use a slotted ebuild.
I am willing to help test ebuilds. I may be using lilypond a lot for a masters thesis project.

FishB8 · l33t Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Posts: 806

BTW: 2.8.0 was just released...
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maartenstorm · n00b Joined: 09 Jan 2003 Posts: 46

I changed the 2.7.36 ebuild into one for 2.8.0. and without using the mutopia-patch it works perfectly for me.