Re: devel on OSX

[Matthias Neeracher]

On Jul 27, 2004, at 4:40 PM, Graham Percival wrote:
> > > g++ -shared -o out/midi.so out/midi.lo      -L/sw/lib  -L/sw/lib 
> > > -lguile -lguile-ltdl -lm
> > > g++: unrecognized option `-shared'
> >
> > There are also parts of lilypond.patch that you'll need to apply. 
> > Specifically here the patch would be, I think:
>
> Ok.
>
> Should this be considered a bug?  I mean, isn't this kind of patch 
> that configure is made to deal with?

Conceptually, yes, that's something the GNU tool chain can handle. 
Specifically, this would be handled by libtool. However, libtool is, as 
far as I understand it, an all or nothing proposition, and using it is 
not entirely trivial.

> I'm not complaining; it's just that once I've succeeded in making 
> Lilypond, I'll add the notes to INSTALL.txt for other potential OSX 
> Lilypond developers.  Should OSX developers be patching certain files 
> manually, or can the basic Lilypond source tarball be modified to 
> allow for this?

It's my understanding that the basic Lilypond distribution eventually 
will move to a portable build system. At that time, I should go through 
my patch and sort out the various issues (I've last done this last 
year, and contributed some minor patches to the basic distribution). 
Many of the patches have to do with the way that fink likes to have 
things laid out; IMHO, this is not really something that belongs in the 
basic tarball.

Matthias