X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id
	:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post
	:list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject
	:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding;
	 q=dns; s=default; b=hXykdoK58eoUALpYh/PBfWFICxdF+ifBndS8YmNpZ1E
	/qbAmsvAnNDiQadEeNVDKeHRe7doK11QzwS3JO2XZfQuEzcO+5xiUDZpCHs9+S6e
	FrnWGTGdehrH5R6ZcPKlK2oGbg0kayE+G2rVnuQdmM7r6k2pvJfPqvZuV46YWtvs
	=
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id
	:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post
	:list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject
	:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding;
	 s=default; bh=cCQ+T19/YhBEJt4+xdBJALAO5h0=; b=myWoC/PwTHcMduPHS
	bij6EkolHi5xaoV2NXaLnZljU2sLpPsZDdx4TML8oqV8DH2mU+eJuIWUlbmNg8//
	wPJFko6oREE3uG0r3EzDybrOhcWozY9wNrY5cf3N399p+Ru4z2JY1Ka8ZSYhd2bn
	UpzN7gS8UioHgByEc/Y9JCrVbA=
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none
X-Virus-Found: No
X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=2.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_COUK,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2
X-HELO: out.ipsmtp1nec.opaltelecom.net
X-SMTPAUTH: drstacey AT tiscali DOT co DOT uk
X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true
X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A2CVAQA8bipV/ylQ0lUNT84eglwCgXMBAQEBAQGFHgEBBDhRCxgJJQ8CRhMIAQG9KpcgAQEBBwEBAQEeiyuEGmkWhBcFhFmKCBGKKIMehnaFT4cKgiUcgVGBcYFAAQEB
X-IPAS-Result: A2CVAQA8bipV/ylQ0lUNT84eglwCgXMBAQEBAQGFHgEBBDhRCxgJJQ8CRhMIAQG9KpcgAQEBBwEBAQEeiyuEGmkWhBcFhFmKCBGKKIMehnaFT4cKgiUcgVGBcYFAAQEB
Message-ID: <552A6ED2.20503@tiscali.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 14:10:42 +0100
From: David Stacey <drstacey AT tiscali DOT co DOT uk>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Libguile17 dependency issue - attention maintainer
References: <CAHfZ7XpFJ1tqfoZ_hg_A08_NKvRHdzx3whPCwN5SGAddqu5qAg AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <54E73A20 DOT 2020706 AT lauterbach DOT com> <54E74A68 DOT 2060501 AT gmail DOT com> <20150220154232 DOT GY26084 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <54E7C0F0 DOT 8070303 AT tiscali DOT co DOT uk> <552A42DC DOT 9080703 AT gmail DOT com>
In-Reply-To: <552A42DC.9080703@gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-IsSubscribed: yes

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.


--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple