Re: devel on OSX

[Graham Percival]

On 27-Jul-04, at 10:23 AM, Matthias Neeracher wrote:
> > From: Graham Percival <address@hidden>
> >
> > Does anybody have experience with tracking CVS on OSX?
>
> Not me, as such, but I've built a few dozen lilypond releases on 
> MacOSX, so I feel semi-qualified :-)

I was hoping you'd answer.  :)

> > How do you deal with the dependancies?  (alternately, how does fink 
> > do it?)
>
> Presumably, you could just install the fink lilypond package and then 
> remove it. This would leave all the dependencies installed.

Unfortunately not; see below.

> > On Linux, I can easily install mftrace, guile-config, etc, and then 
> > download CVS and compile Lilypond.  But those programs aren't in 
> > fink, so I'd need to install them manually.  Is that what other 
> > people on OSX do?
>
> guile is in fink (actually, you need guile16).

I realize that, but it's configured in a weird way.  Or something.

$ fink install lilypond      ## yes, with all dependancies
$ fink purge lilypond
$ cd ~/devel/lilypond-2.3.8    ## fresh tarball from webpage
$ ./autogen.sh

output:
...
WARNING: Please consider installing optional programs:  guile mftrace

ERROR: Please install required programs:  echo no guile-config >= 1.6 
(installed: ) kpathsea (libkpathsea-dev, kpathsea-devel or tetex-devel 
package). Else, please specify the location of your kpathsea using 
--with-kpathsea-include and --with-kpathsea-lib options. You should 
install kpathsea; see INSTALL.txt. Rerun ./configure --without-kpathsea 
only if kpathsea is not available for your platform.


I could try installing mftrace, and I could probably deal with the 
kpathsea stuff, but I don't know what's up with echo, no, and 
guile-config.

> Unfortunately, mftrace & co. are not yet available on MacOS X. The 
> current fink packages "cheat" on the source builds by extracting the 
> prebuilt fonts from the RedHat rpms. This may not be a viable strategy 
> for CVS tracking.

mftrace will compile; I just tried it.  And Lilypond's autogen.sh is 
happy with mftrace now:


WARNING: Please consider installing optional programs:  guile

ERROR: Please install required programs:  echo no guile-config >= 1.6 
(installed: ) kpathsea (libkpathsea-dev, kpathsea-devel or tetex-devel 
package). Else, please specify the location of your kpathsea using 
--with-kpathsea-include and --with-kpathsea-lib options. You should 
install kpathsea; see INSTALL.txt. Rerun ./configure --without-kpathsea 
only if kpathsea is not available for your platform.


Do you know what's happening with guile?

- Graham