diff --git a/srcpkgs/lilypond/INSTALL.msg b/srcpkgs/lilypond/INSTALL.msg
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+To use lilypond a working texlive installation is also needed.
diff --git a/srcpkgs/lilypond/template b/srcpkgs/lilypond/template
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+# Template file for 'lilypond'
+pkgname="lilypond"
+version="2.19.65"
+revision=1
+_tlversion=2017
+build_wrksrc="build"
+build_style="gnu-configure"
+configure_script="../configure"
+configure_args="--enable-documentation=off --with-texgyre-dir=/opt/texlive/${_tlversion}/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/tex-gyre"
+hostmakedepends="automake autogen pkg-config flex bison fontforge gettext
+ perl texinfo texlive-bin gnupg guile1.8"
+makedepends="guile1.8-devel fontconfig-devel freetype-devel pango-devel
+ python-devel libltdl-devel gc-devel"
+depends="python ghostscript"
+short_desc="Music engraving program"
+maintainer="newbluemoon <blaumolch@mailbox.org>"
+homepage="http://lilypond.org/"
+license="GPL-3, FDL-1.3"
+distfiles="http://download.linuxaudio.org/${pkgname}/source/v2.19/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=0dde43a5c1d2688457eee6dcc84f88599a260c53088cb05961c24854fef1524c
+nocross=yes
+
+if [ -n ${CROSS_BUILD} ]; then
+	hostmakedepends+=" guile1.8-devel python-devel"
+	makedepends+=" libfl-devel"
+	configure_args+=" --with-python-include=${XBPS_CROSS_BASE}/usr/include/python2.7 --with-python-lib=python2.7"
+fi
+
+post_extract() {
+	if [ ! -d $wrksrc/$build_wrksrc ]; then
+		mkdir $wrksrc/$build_wrksrc
+	fi
+}
+
+pre_configure() {
+	source /etc/profile.d/texlive.sh
+	tlmgr install t1utils lh epsf tex-gyre
+
+	cd ..
+	./autogen.sh --noconfigure
+	cd ${build_wrksrc}
+}
+
+do_build() {
+	source /etc/profile.d/texlive.sh
+	make ${makejobs} ${make_build_args} ${make_build_target}
+}
+