Hi Robert, Welcome to the Pond!
I don't have a Mac myself. Maybe someone who does will be able to help. Can I ask how you are executing lilypond? If you are running it from the command line you could try enabling more verbose logging by passing the "-l DEBUG" option and sending us the output. Best wishes, Kevin On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 23:21, Robert Bell <weru...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Hello all, > > Total newbie here, so I apologize if I am posting this to an incorrect > correct place. > > I just downloaded the 2.20 version, trying to run it on an old iMac using OS > 10.5. While I get the initial “Successfully installed” window/file, when > trying to compile after saving I get a “Fatal error: Unknown relocation > error” message. I even tried a ‘tiny example’ (the four note {c4 e g e } > example off the site) but get the same message. There may be pertinent > information concerning this type of problem somewhere in various lists and > logs, but I am too illiterate to find it. > > Any help would appreciated, and feel free to throw in a few slanderous > comments. > > Robert Bell > > > >