Re: Problems with lilypond and lion?

[Hans Aberg]

On 20 Dec 2011, at 21:01, Graham Percival wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 08:54:04PM +0100, Hans Aberg wrote:
>>>> LilyPond 2.15.22 works in the OS X 10.7.2 GUI. From Terminal, I use a 
>>>> script ~/bin/lilypond:
>>>>  exec /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond "$@"
>>>> On OS X 10.7 /usr/local/bin/ is in the path, so one can put the script 
>>>> there.
>> 
>>> Did you install it by hand or downloaded the binary package?
>> 
>> The binary at
>>  http://lilypond.org/development.html
>> I think the issue was fixed some months ago.
> 
> Those interested in lilypond on osx should read this:
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1943
> (note: the title should maybe be changed to "on ppc macs", or
> maybe not, I'm not really certain)

The page is for Mac OS X 10.5.8; 10.5 was the last that ran on both PPC & 
Intel. On 10.6, one can still run a PPC binary using the Rosetta interpreter, 
but that is not possible in 10.7.

For OS 10.7, there was a development version that didn't run, but it was fixed.

Hans