Re: [frogs] CG chapter 3, first draft

[Graham Percival <graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 04:17:17PM -0800, Mark Polesky wrote:
> The links:
> http://www.markpolesky.com/norobots/compiling_new.itexi
> http://www.markpolesky.com/norobots/compiling_new.itexi.html
> 
> Graham Percival wrote:
> > I use
> >   tar -xjf lilypond-x.y.z-a.tar.bz2
> > for the tar.gz (do we even distribute those?), you'd
> > change the j to a z.
> 
> As far as I know, we *only* distribute those.  Where do you
> see a lilypond[*].tar.bz2 file?

Nowhere, I was just making up my normal command-line for dealing
with compressed files.  We could save a bit of space+bandwidth by
switching to .tar.bz2, but this is hardly an urgent issue.

> >> Okay, I changed "you need to run" to "you should run".
> >
> > well... ok.  Even that's not true, but it's easier than
> > explaining "if some time has passed since the last time
> > you ran ./configure or ./autogen.sh, then run
> > ./configure".
> 
> Isn't it a good idea to run it before your first compile?
> How is that not true?

../autogen.sh automatically runs ./configure.

Cheers,
- Graham

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