Re: LilyPond on Leopard (was: Re: Please rebuild with newer version of MacOS X developer tools)

[Matthias Neeracher]

On Feb 26, 2008, at 8:58 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> 2008/2/26, Matthias Neeracher <address@hidden>:
>
> > I was able to get ahold of him today, and the news is not good. He
> > says he hasn't maintained the package in quite some time. It might be
> > time to consider a different build strategy.
>
> Dang - this is annoying, because MacOS will require a completely
> different build chain.  Doesn't anyone cross-compile to macos?

Apparently not...

> > I'd be happy to volunteer some of my resources for this, if it's of
> > any use. I could either build the packages for you, or, if necessary,
> > I might be able to figure out how to create an account for you (I  
> > have
> > a pretty-much-always-on Mac, but I have no current experience with
> > guest accounts, so the ncessary sandboxing might take some time).
>
> I remember reading about a script to automate packaging up a Fink
> package plus its dependencies.  I think this would be the easiest
> road, since getting our GUB framework up and running on darwin will be
> hell.  I'll see if I can find this again.

Unfortunately, the fink package builds the command line tool, not the  
application around it.

Does the lilypond web site have a description of your release build  
process?

Matthias