Re: MAC help

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Anna Anufriyva <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi, guys!

I used the pre-compiled binary 5 days ago and everything stopped on the step "Compile"

After updating OS software pre-compiled binary works :-)

Thanks
Anna

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Mike Blackstock <address@hidden> wrote:

Thx guys. Anna, could you try the pre-compiled binary at http://www.lilypond.org/macos-x.html? Sorry for not making it clear that you don't have to compile from scratch - pre-compiled binaries exist for all major platforms. If you want to kill me, I deserve it.

M.

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:46 AM, James Lowe <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello,
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Subject: Re: MAC help

On Apr 17, 2011, at 7:12 AM, Mike Blackstock wrote:

> I'm helping a friend install on Mac OS X 10.6.6 but I know nothing about the Mac. I found this in the archive: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2011-03/msg00246.html
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> Is that the right approach for her?

No. That's not the right approach for almost any user, there is just no reason to compile Lilypond from scratch. Download the precompiled binary and put it in the Applications folder.

http://www.lilypond.org/macos-x.html

Note that the 10.6.7 OS update from Apple may break Lilypond. There have been several reports of problems after updating to 10.6.7 but I have no idea if the cause or a for-sure ix has been identified.

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Just to clarify that last statement, 10.6.7 didn't 'break' Lilypond inasmuch as it caused some fonts to not display properly - the symptom was apparently the score would 'sometimes' (at least I never had it at all) not show note heads and only show stems, which one could argue breaks LP in displaying PDFs, however...all those people that had this as far as I can tell on the thread, either ran Onyx (which you can download for free - if you don't know what it is use Google but I do recommend it generally for Mac as a useful tool - and ran all the 'clean out/maintenance' scripts - which includes things like rebuilding the font cache and the like, then reboot and all was fine after that.

I am not aware that this problem - which was reported on another website to do with OTF type fonts (I think) so was a general than specific to LP - was ever 'resolved' in terms of what the underlying problem is or even the case of those users that had the issue with LP still had the issue after this clean out.

However, I myself had no such problems so don't want to put you or your friend off from using LP on a Mac. Indeed I've literally just finished a set of 10 parts for our Local Wind Band with no issues at all.

regards

James

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From:	Mike Blackstock
Subject:	Re: MAC help
Date:	Fri, 22 Apr 2011 08:03:33 -0400