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Re: Mac OS X Catalina 64-bit compile ?
From: |
Hans Åberg |
Subject: |
Re: Mac OS X Catalina 64-bit compile ? |
Date: |
Sat, 30 May 2020 14:00:20 +0200 |
> On 30 May 2020, at 11:15, Mats Behre <mb.maillists@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2020-05-30 10:27, Hans Åberg wrote:
>>> On 30 May 2020, at 10:14, Mats Behre <mb.maillists@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2020-05-29 20:18, Hans Åberg wrote:
>>>> For an editor app, Frescobaldi is much better, and it runs lilypond
>>>> externally, and for 2.21, there is the installer that I just posted about
>>>> [1], which does not require MacPorts, or the MacPorts one itself, or
>>>> possibly, traditional package chasing.
>>>>
>>>> 1. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2020-05/msg00536.html
>>>>
>>> The editor part at least I can do without, but I think you missed an
>>> important part of the OP:s request - he does not want an installer (and
>>> neither do I).
>> Not really, you would probably have to compile it yourself.
>
> As I said, I downloaded it from the marnen link ...
Not the 2.21 under discussion, I believe.
>>> The Lilypond.app available through the other link can be just copied to an
>>> arbitrary location, and the Lilypond program itself used as in earlier
>>> versions.
>> That is no longer true on MacOS 10.15, as the OS itself runs in a dedicated
>> read only space, and you can only put it certain locations. The directory
>> /Applications/ is for native MacOS applications, and for example /opt/ is
>> for Unix applications, and /usr/local/ for source compiled applications.
>
> That's the recommended locations (I assume you have them correctly), but
> there is nothing that prevents you from putting things elsewhere. Perhaps
> using an installer (or putting lilypond in /opt) prevents the need to
> explicitly allowing the application to run, but as you can see from below I
> can run it from e.g. Downloads.
It is compiled with relative paths, which makes it relocatable. But
/Applications/ is a directory with special permissions for the purpose.
> (But you're correct that the OS location is read-only, even if I'm sure that
> you can find ways around that too - but you really don't want to!)
One would have to reboot into the mode with only a terminal and turn it off,
and the reboot again, I think. But it is intended as protection against
malware, such as root kits, so not recommended.
- Mac OS X Catalina 64-bit compile ?, Wim van Dommelen, 2020/05/29
- Re: Mac OS X Catalina 64-bit compile ?, Karlin High, 2020/05/29
- Re: Mac OS X Catalina 64-bit compile ?, Wim van Dommelen, 2020/05/29
- Re: Re: Mac OS X Catalina 64-bit compile ?, Mats Behre, 2020/05/30
- Re: Mac OS X Catalina 64-bit compile ?, Hans Åberg, 2020/05/30
- Re: Mac OS X Catalina 64-bit compile ?, Mats Behre, 2020/05/30
- Re: Mac OS X Catalina 64-bit compile ?,
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- Re: Mac OS X Catalina 64-bit compile ?, Hans Åberg, 2020/05/30
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- Re: Mac OS X Catalina 64-bit compile ?, Wim van Dommelen, 2020/05/30
- Re: Mac OS X Catalina 64-bit compile ?, Mark Knoop, 2020/05/30
Re: Mac OS X Catalina 64-bit compile ?, Hans Åberg, 2020/05/29