Re: devel on OSX

[Matthias Neeracher]

> From: Graham Percival <address@hidden>
>
> Does anybody have experience with tracking CVS on OSX?  

Not me, as such, but I've built a few dozen lilypond releases on MacOSX, so I feel semi-qualified :-)

> How do you deal with the dependancies?  (alternately, how does fink do it?)

Presumably, you could just install the fink lilypond package and then remove it. This would leave all the dependencies installed.

> On Linux, I can easily install mftrace, guile-config, etc, and then download CVS and compile Lilypond.  But those programs aren't in fink, so I'd need to install them manually.  Is that what other people on OSX do?

guile is in fink (actually, you need guile16).

Unfortunately, mftrace & co. are not yet available on MacOS X. The current fink packages "cheat" on the source builds by extracting the prebuilt fonts from the RedHat rpms. This may not be a viable strategy for CVS tracking.

Matthias