Re: Building lilypond on osx

[Luca Fascione]

Thanks a lot Jonas, this is very helpful

On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 8:29 PM Jonas Hahnfeld <hahnjo@hahnjo.de> wrote:

> The usually recommended way (and that's also what I use to build the
> packages for macOS) is export PATH="$(brew --prefix bison)/bin:$PATH"
> in the session before configuring.


So I can rely on the build system capturing the resolved path to bison
during configure, like it would for CXX/CXXFLAGS?
Good to know, thanks


> You might also set specific env variables (whose names you'd need to look
> up in the configure script),
> but changing PATH usually works fine.
>

I did look in the configure help, I couldn't find an env var to adjust how
bison is resolved.
I am passing in directories to resolve the fonts, for example (say
--with-texgyre-dir=/usr/local/Cellar/texlive/58837_1/share/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/tex-gyre/)

There's quite a few to specify linkage behaviour that I did find though.

Can't say that I fully understand why we need both URW and Gyre fonts, I
might ask Werner at some point.


> > (I also need to repoint flex and maybe gettext, gettext is strange)
>
> Not sure, flex should be sufficient on macOS
>

It is. This was me misreading my notes. Sorry for the mixup.
Texinfo seems like it'll need some love (mac seems to have 4.8 and we need
6.1 if I read the docs right),
I'll try the same $(brew --prefix texinfo)/bin into PATH like you suggested
for bison

Guile also seems awkward:

checking for guile-2.2 >= 2.2.0... no
<... snip ...>
checking for guile... guile
checking guile version... 3.0.8

(FWIW I have both 2.2.7 and 3.0.8 installed:

% ll /usr/local/opt/guile*
lrwxr-xr-x  1 xxxxx  xxxxx  21 Feb 27 18:37 /usr/local/opt/guile ->
../Cellar/guile/3.0.8
lrwxr-xr-x  1 xxxxx  xxxxx  25 Jan 16 18:18 /usr/local/opt/guile@2 ->
../Cellar/guile@2/2.2.7_1
lrwxr-xr-x  1 xxxxx  xxxxx  21 Feb 27 18:37 /usr/local/opt/guile@3 ->
../Cellar/guile/3.0.8

)

Where is the testing/detection for Guile set up, roughly?

Thanks again,
L

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Luca Fascione