Re: Problems building Lilypond

[Graham Percival]

On 9-Aug-05, at 9:47 AM, Peter Teeson wrote:

> > > Problem (1) g++ does not recognize -shared option
> >
> > The fink patch deals with this exact issue.
> What is this all about? Does this mean I'm obliged to install fink 
> just to fix one small issue?
> Is that not excessive?

No, you're obligated to go to the fink website, find their webcvs, find 
a directory
like
cvsroot/fink/dists/10.4-transitional/unstable/main/finkinfo/text/
(this is a guess; it's been a few days since I looked at it.  The real 
dir is fairly
close to this, though)

and download
lilypond-unstable.info
lilypond-unstable.patch

(err... sorry, were you installing 2.7.x or 2.6.y ?  If you're doing 
2.6, then grab
"lilypond.info" and "lilypond.patch" instead)

Apply the lilypond.patch to the head of the source tree, and read 
lilypond.info
for other details of how to ./configure it.


For whatever reason, apple's gcc does not recognize the -shared option.


The reason that I'm directing you to the fink patch is that we have no 
plan to
make the lilypond tarball compile directly on OSX.  Matthias (the fink 
porter)
has gone to a lot of effort to create the fink patch, and (other than 
as a learning
experience) there's no reason not to use all that hard work.  Most OSX 
users
use the OSX binary; those who do unix stuff (such as myself) all use 
fink
anyway.

Judging from previous problems with getting the fink port to work, 
you'll
probably need to play games with your font programs (fontforge, 
fontconfig, etc)
to get them to play nice with OSX, x11, and lilypond.  I'm very much in 
favor
of building stuff to learn about unix, but lily on OSX is not a project 
I'd recommend
for that.

Cheers,
- Graham