> 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 <haber...@telia.com> wrote: > > > On 10 Oct 2019, at 9:01:57 AM, Eric Benson <ebseat...@gmail.com> 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. :-) > > > _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
