1.2.4 Building documentation without compiling LilyPond

The documentation can be built locally without compiling lilypond from scratch.

From a fresh git checkout, do

     ./autogen.sh   % ignore any warning messages
     cp GNUmakefile.in GNUmakefile
     make -C python
     nice make LILYPOND_EXTERNAL_BINARY=/path/to/bin/lilypond web
     % change the lilypond directory as appropriate

Please note that this may break sometimes – for example, if a new feature is added with a test file in input/regression, even the latest unstable Lily will fail to build the docs.

You may build the manual ( Documentation/user/ ) without building all the input/* stuff.