Re: 2.15.27 won't open on Mac 10.4 PPC

[David Kastrup]

James Worlton <address@hidden> writes:

> On Jan 31, 2012, at 2:55 AM, Hans Aberg wrote:
>
>> On 31 Jan 2012, at 03:53, James Worlton wrote:
>>
>>> I downloaded the most recent development version for my Mac PPC
>>> (10.4) system,
>>> and double-clicked the LilyPond.app after extracting the .tar.bz2
>>> file.

[...]

>>> Symbol not
>>> found: _CFFileDescriptorCreate
>>>  Referenced from:
>>> /Applications/Lilypond/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/
>>>  lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/CoreFoundation/_CoreFoundation.so
>>>  Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/
>>>  CoreFoundation
>>>
>>> 2012-01-30 20:42:51.847 LilyPond[332] LilyPond Error
>>
>> This link says CFFileDescriptor requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
>>   http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#technotes/tn2050/_index.html
>
> So that means I'm stuck at 2.15.26? (Or 2.14.x?) Or is this something
> that was overlooked in compiling the PPC version?

The passive voice is a grammatical construct convenient for hiding the
active subject of a sentence.

Somebody apparently _did_ compile the PPC version.  And apparently with
a setup that is not representative for your computer.  So the solution,
instead of "being stuck", is to volunteer for that kind of compilation
work and thus be able to give early feedback.

It is all very complimentary if users expect "the developers (TM)" to
set up compilation farms representative for every installation out
there, but not all that realistic.

-- 
David Kastrup