Re: Version of lilypond for FreeBSD

[Aaron Dalton]

What is happening is your daughter's computer is a newer version of 
FreeBSD and apparently it will not compile on 5.2 systems.  You can try to 
force the issue by editing the file /usr/ports/print/lilypond/Makefile and 
removing the 3-line section that says "BROKEN= Will not compile....." and 
then reinstall the port.  I know that I have got lilypond working on my 
FreeBSD system, but it took alot of manual tweaking.

Unfortunately, it appears that the FreeBSD port maintainer that originally 
imported v2.2.2 has abandoned the port (cannot be contacted) and I simply 
don't have the expertise necessary to take over.  Until somebody does, you 
won't see v2.5 in the ports tree anytime soon =(

I run Windows on another machine and have found the Cygwin process to be 
easy and painless.  You may wish to consider migrating since it seems 
you don't have time to fiddle.  My very recent run-in with convert-ly to 
transform *my* 2.2.2 documents to 2.5 was very good and you shouldn't have 
any problems I hope.  Best of luck to you, and congratulations on your 
ordination.

Cheers!
Aaron