Re: macOS 64-bit

[Marnen Laibow-Koser]

On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 3:06 PM Hans Åberg <address@hidden> wrote:

>
> > On 17 May 2019, at 16:10, Marnen Laibow-Koser <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> Given that MacPorts supports more packages than Homebrew this is a
> >> very bold statement.
> >
> > Homebrew supports enough packages, and it’s really easy to add new ones,
> so
> > that’s pretty much irrelevant.
>
> Somebody said it had problems with choosing versions. For example,
> LilyPond uses Guile 1.8, not the latest, and the lilypond in MacPorts uses
> gcc8, not the latest supported gcc9.


Will it build with GCC 9?


>
> As for the SDK, the one they use is the latest having a true GCC, which is
> gcc4, I think, and what is called gcc after that is instead clang, not the
> official version, but an inhouse version, and lilypond does not compile
> with any of them.


Hmm.  If LilyPond won’t compile with Clang/LLVM, I wonder if that would be
a problem for 64-bit Mac builds, because I don’t know if the macOS SDK will
build with GCC.  (It certainly might; I haven’t checked.)

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