Re: macOS 64-bit

[Marnen Laibow-Koser]

On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 3:10 PM Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:

>
> > Hi everyone!  In working on 64-bit Mac builds of lilypond, I notice,
> > to my surprise, that lilypond and lilypond-devel exist in MacPorts
> > for 2.18.2 and 2.19.83 respectively.  I'm experimenting with these
> > builds (as well as other approaches), but does anyone know anything
> > about them?
>
> I've never tried the `lilypond' port; the `lilypond-devel' port was
> updated by me (and I still maintain it)


Oh, that’s good to know.


>
> > Any pitfalls I should be aware of?
>
> I don't think so.  All information is in the Portfile, I believe.
>
> However, the package dependencies are not perfectly set up (and I
> don't have time right now to work on it): The categorization into
> needed build-only, run-only, and build-run packages is not fully
> correct.  For directly using lilypond-devel this is of no importance,
> but for creating binary tarballs it makes a big difference.


Yes, I can believe that.  The ideal end result of this, of course, is a
binary .app bundle with no external dependencies.


>
>
>     Werner


Best,

>
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