Re: Building lilypond on osx

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

On Sat, 2022-05-21 at 07:49 +0200, Luca Fascione wrote:
> As a side question, may I ask: I thought I saw commits pass in
> Colin's emails that were indicating GUB and stepmake were being
> removed, did I misunderstand what the plan is? Is there a place I can
> get myself up to speed on this? (just curious, don't have much of an
> opinion one way or the other atm)

Since the past few development releases, LilyPond doesn't rely on GUB
anymore. This is tightly coupled with the transition to Guile 2, there
are plenty of threads on this topic in the mailing list archives.

As for StepMake, its removal as a separate package is ongoing since
https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/commit/6c323bc1bb27a79f687f5f3f3ed6b105aad24caa
This takes some time because the current build system works, so there
isn't much incentive to work on this. For the same reason, the macros
in aclocal.m4 are still called STEPMAKE_*.

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