Re: lilypond-book is not flavor independent

[Hans Aberg]

On 28 Mar 2009, at 15:14, Graham Percival wrote:

> > I found page for Mac OS X, though somewhat dated (2005), which  
> > actually
> > suggests
> >  #!/usr/bin/env python
> >  http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/opensourcescripting.html
> >
> > Also, MacPorts has Python, on my system (Mac OS X 10.5.6 PPC G4):
> >  $ which python
> >  /opt/local/bin/python
> >
> >  $ /opt/local/bin/python --version
> >  Python 2.5.4
> >
> > So users on Mac OS X 10.4 might install MacPorts and its Python,  
> > though I
> > do not know which version it has on Tiger.
>
> That won't help, because /usr/bin/python is still 2.3.5.  Hence
> the whole discussion about using /usr/bin/env, which we can't do
> without a patch to GUB.


One must use '#!/usr/bin/env python', of course, as the Apple  
developer page suggests.

If GUB (same as GRUB, right?) stamps '/usr/bin/python' for you, then  
it might be tough to get around that. Hmm.

  Hans