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4.8 Concurrent stable and development versions
It can be useful to have both the stable and the development versions
of LilyPond available at once. One way to do this on GNU/Linux is to
install the stable version using the precompiled binary, and run the
development version from the source tree. After running make
all from the top directory of the LilyPond source files, there will
be a binary called lilypond in the out directory:
<path to>/lilypond/out/bin/lilypond
This binary can be run without actually doing the make
install command. The advantage to this is that you can have all
of the latest changes available after pulling from git and running
make all, without having to uninstall the old version and
reinstall the new.
So, to use the stable version, install it as usual and use the normal commands:
lilypond foobar.ly
To use the development version, create a link to the binary in the
source tree by saving the following line in a file somewhere in your
$PATH:
exec <path to>/lilypond/out/bin/lilypond "$@"
Save it as Lilypond (with a capital L to distinguish it
from the stable lilypond), and make it executable:
chmod +x Lilypond
Then you can invoke the development version this way:
Lilypond foobar.ly
TODO: ADD
- other compilation tricks for developers
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