Re: lilypond does not work with Mac OS 10.15 (Catalina)

[Eric Benson]

> This is good, but I think GCC 8 was kept deliberately as it was unclear
if GCC 9 would work.

gcc8 failed to build on MacPorts on Catalina on the latest Xcode. Rather
than try to understand why, I switched to gcc9 and it seems to work fine.

On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 11:51 AM Hans Åberg <address@hidden> wrote:

>
> > On 10 Oct 2019, at 9:01:57 AM, Eric Benson <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > I was able to build Lilypond on Catalina, using the newest Xcode.
> MacPorts does not yet have a distribution for Catalina, so I built it from
> source as well. It seems to work fine. I did have to make one change to the
> Portfile for lilypond-devel. I added macports-gcc-9 at the top of the
> compiler.fallback-append list, because MacPorts was mistakenly trying and
> failing to build gcc8 as a dependency.
>
> This is good, but I think GCC 8 was kept deliberately as it was unclear if
> GCC 9 would work.
>
> > I know there is a political controversy about the GNU License and the
> latest Xcode, but there don't seem to be any technical challenges to
> building from source on the current Mac OS and Xcode.
>
> It is only for cross builds.
>
> > I'm using a 64-bit-compiled Lilypond 2.19.83 on Catalina now.
>
> Me too: The MacPorts version seems to work if installing before the update
> to MacOS 10.15. :-)
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