Karlin High <karlinh...@gmail.com> writes: > On 2/14/2019 4:04 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >> It may well be that the licensing conditions of any such SDK spell >> end-of-line for MacOSX support since Apple is allergic to the GPL-v3. >> It's conceivable that an OpenDarwin SDK without graphics support (after >> all, we don't really need it, even if it means lack of supporting >> platform fonts) could work instead. >> >> So "suitable Apple SDK" does not just mean "can be made to work" but >> also "is legally permitted to be made to work". > > I have been trying to determine what licenses or permissions the > current GUB macOS build tools are using. References found so far: > > In <http://lilypond.org/downloads/gub-sources/> > darwin7-sdk-0.4.tar.gz > darwin8-sdk-0.4.tar.gz > odcctools-iphone-dev-278.tar.gz > odcctools-20060413.tar.bz2 > gcc-4.2-20070207.tar.bz2 (Presumably Apple's version of gcc?)
Probably the last one available as GPLv2+. > Apple-internal investigation." (cc to Han-Wen here.) GUB's macOS > installer was having trouble running on 10.5 Leopard, suggestion made > to upgrade version of XCode, Han-Wen explains about GUB. Full quote: > > " > we use GUB (see > <http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=logh=gub>) to build > binaries, not Xcode. We link against > > <http://lilypond.org/download/gub-sources/darwin8-sdk-0.4.tar.gz> > > which is based on something that I got from ADC. Unfortunately, I > can't work out which version it is. Which would explain why I got nowhere trying to figure this out. > If you could provide me with a similar tarball (or URL) which does > work for 10.5, that would help. Unfortunately, the ADC requires login, > so I can't put the proper URL for the SDK package right inside GUB. " > > End quote. I assume ADC means Apple Developer Center, today > <https://developer.apple.com/> and the current SDK was downloaded from > there, extracted and repackaged, and uploaded to somewhere > GUB-accessible like its current location. Apple seems to do well at > keeping old versions of developer tools available, back to Xcode Tools > v1.0 from 2003. This has me wondering about a path forward for a newer > SDK: > > * Find what SDK is needed for 64-bit macOS builds. > + Assuming Darwin 9, 10.5 SDK, macOS 10.5 Leopard. > * Try finding what terms the current SDK has or did have > * Find terms of required SDK > * If terms are not substantially different, do again what was done before. > > Comments? It's mostly over my head. Just want to point out that we can probably make do with a GUI-free version of some Darwin SDK (that would make LilyPond likely be missing font and possibly GhostScript integration with MacOSX and have it possibly come without editor, but so what). -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
