Re: Any advice for getting emacs working with lilypond on MacOsX?

[Davide Liessi]

2014-05-13 17:52 GMT+02:00 rif <address@hidden>:
> I was attempting to install Fresdcobaldi with Lilypond.  All I can tell you
> is that running a brew install frescobaldi told me I needed MacTeX.

I'm not a Homebrew expert, but probably MacTeX is considered by
Homebrew a dependency of LilyPond itself.
You should install LilyPond from [1] and then install Frescobaldi
through Homebrew with `brew install frescobaldi --without-lilypond`
(see [2] for details).

@Marnen: can you confirm that `brew install frescobaldi` asks the user
to manually install XQuartz and MacTeX? Maybe we should clarify this
in [2].
Or maybe you could remove the dependency of Frescobaldi on LilyPond:
after all, both the download page [3] and the install guide [2] advise
to install a copy of LilyPond as a separate step; but this depends on
what is usually done in Homebrew, so I won't push for this solution
further.

Best wishes.
Davide


[1] http://lilypond.org/macos-x.html
[2] 
https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/wiki/How-to-install-Frescobaldi-on-Mac-OS-X
[3] http://www.frescobaldi.org/download