Re: osx compatibility: stepmake/stepmake/c++-rules.make

[Graham Percival]

On 15-Dec-05, at 4:46 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >  +ifneq ($(DARWIN_BUILD),)
> >  $(outdir)/%.cc: %.ll
> >  	$(FLEX) -Cfe -p -p -o$@ $< +	perl -i.bak -pe 's/^class 
> > istream;/#include <iostream>;\nusing namespace std;/' $@
> > +else
> > +$(outdir)/%.cc: %.ll
> > +       $(FLEX) -Cfe -p -p -o$@ $< +endif
>
> this is getting out of hand.  I will not accept gratuitous ifdefs all 
> over the code. Complain with the fink maintainers for shipping a 
> broken flex.

I think it would be nice to allow people to build lilypond without 
requiring them to copy patches from fink cvs (either web-cvs or 
/sw/fink/10.3/finkinfo/blah/foo/text/lilypond-devel.patch ).

How's this?  There's a "darwin.patch" file in the root of the lilypond 
source tree, which doesn't appear to have been modified since March 
2002.  I don't think those patches are necessary.  Could we replace 
those patches with build-necessary OSX patches?  ie not the changes to 
the info directories (which is clearly a "play nice with fink" fink 
patch); just the parts of the fink patch that is necessary to build 
lilypond.

We don't need to change the existing fink patch; I'll just add portions 
of the fink patch to that file so that people can use it if they wish.  
Yes, this only applies to half a dozen people, but I think it's still a 
nice thing to do.

Cheers,
- Graham