Re: Announcing Lilypond fink package (for MacOS X)

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Matthias Neeracher <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm pleased to announce that a fink package to compile Lilypond 1.5.45
> is now available for MacOS X.

Wow, that's very nice.

> To try it:
>
> - Get the Fink package manager from http://fink.sourceforge.net
> - Get the Lilypond package description by either
>    a) Enabling the "unstable" tree in fink and executing "fink selfupdate"
>    b) Or copying the two included files into
> /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo
> - Install the Lilypond package by executing
>
>       fink install lilypond-unstable

Ok.  The a) path didn't work for me, but I'm a complete fink newbie,
possibly this is a installation/configuration problem?  See below.  b)
works fine; I've only found one little bug: you should run 'mktexlsr'
in the postinstall phase.

> Please let me know about your success or failure in using this
> package. The more feedback I get, the sooner the lilypond package can
> be folded into the main fink distribution.

I'd say, a fine result for the first package.
Greetings,
Jan.

a)

[buoux:/sw] root# cat etc/fink.conf
# Fink configuration, initially created by bootstrap.pl
Basepath: /sw
RootMethod: sudo
Trees: local/main stable/main stable/crypto local/bootstrap unstable/main
Mirror-ctan: ftp://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/
Mirror-gimp: ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub
Mirror-gnome: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/
Mirror-gnu: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu
MirrorContinent: nam
MirrorCountry: nam-us
ProxyPassiveFTP: true
Verbose: false
SelfUpdateNoCVS: true
[buoux:/sw] root# fink selfupdate
rm -f LATEST-FINK
curl -L -s -S -O http://fink.sourceforge.net/LATEST-FINK

You already have the package descriptions from the latest Fink point release.
(installed:0.3.2a available:0.3.2a)
[buoux:/sw] root# fink install lilypond-unstable
Reading package info...
Information about 649 packages read in 5 seconds.
Failed: no package found for specification 'lilypond-unstable'!

b):

buoux:/sw] root# scp 'address@hidden:patches/lilypond-unstable*' 
/sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo
Password:
lilypond-unstable-1. 100% |*****************************|  1898       00:00
lilypond-unstable-1. 100% |*****************************|  1232       00:00
[buoux:/sw] root# fink install lilypond-unstable
Reading package info...
Information about 650 packages read in 5 seconds.
curl -L -s -S -O 
http://www.lilypond.org/ftp/LilyPond/development/lilypond-1.5.45.tar.gz
mkdir -p /sw/src/lilypond-unstable-1.5.45-1
tar -xzf /sw/src/lilypond-1.5.45.tar.gz
patch -p1 </sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/lilypond-unstable-1.5.45-1.patch
patching file stepmake/stepmake/c-vars.make
patching file stepmake/stepmake/compile-vars.make
./configure --prefix=/sw --infodir='$(prefix)/share/info' 
--mandir='$(prefix)/share/man'
creating cache ./config.cache
checking Package... LILYPOND
[..]
-> ok

-- 
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien       | http://www.lilypond.org