On Jun 5, 2013, at 7:49 PM, Andrew Bernard wrote: > Greetings, > > On 6/06/13 10:13 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: >> Installing Frescobaldi remains one of the singularly frustrating interludes >> of my computing life. I cannot figure out how anyone gets a damned thing >> done using Linux/BSD with all the asinine dependency issues, even with >> package managers. Installing any piece of software is a voyage of the >> damned rather than a simple download and double-click to launch. > Well, I can sympathise with your frustration, but that's not exactly > accurate. Proper Linux distros such as Debian have very sophisticated package > management via apt that handle all required dependencies and are at a high > stage of maturity. The issue here is that although Mac's are great - I am > typing on my dear macbookpro 17 inch, and although they are built on a > derivative of BSD UNIX, they lack the package management capabilities of most > Linux systems, as they are not conceived of by Apple as full UNIX systems for > end users. I have not had any success getting frescobaldi to install using > the mac built-in version of python and so on. It appears the only way to make > this all work is to use the macports system, as mentioned earlier in this > thread. Apart from providing the right versions of the software you require, > it does indeed have a dependency system for pretty much all of the items.
Yes, I did not mention that I have installed everything I can for this via MacPorts. Only Frescobaldi and python-poppler-qt4-0.16.3 are not installed that way because they are not available through MacPorts. I have followed the incantations step by step. Perhaps I need to sacrifice a goat or something. Trying to compile python-poppler-qt4-0.16.3 (and all previous versions I tried) fails. As you can see from the messages the Mac tries to use the /Library version and not the /opt version of Python, because of course the compiler installed by Apple is going to look in /Library and not in /opt... >> Despite installing Python, QT4, a bunch of dependencies that don't even make >> sense, and every other doggone item on the list of things to install and >> configure, Frescobaldi still cannot connect to Poppler so that I can >> conveniently see the rendered PDF file. The crux of the matter finally >> seems to be the unholy alliance that is SIP: >> >> [tim ~/Desktop/Downloads/python-poppler-qt4-0.16.3]$ python setup.py build >> running build >> running build_ext >> building 'popplerqt4' extension >> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/sip -I >> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/share/sip -t >> POPPLER_V0_20_0 -c build/temp.macosx-10.6-intel-2.7 -b >> build/temp.macosx-10.6-intel-2.7/poppler-qt4.sbf -I >> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/share/sip/PyQt4 -x >> VendorID -t WS_MACX -x PyQt_NoPrintRangeBug -t Qt_4_8_0 -x Py_v3 -g >> poppler-qt4.sip >> sip: Deprecation warning: poppler-qt4.sip:1: %Module version number should >> be specified using the 'version' argument >> sip: Unable to find file "QtCore/QtCoremod.sip" >> error: command '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/sip' >> failed with exit status 1 >> > I mentioned earlier in this thread that my experience was that the > instructions are missing the installation of sip. I had to use macports to > install sip. I believe this needs to be added to the set of steps. After > installing py27-sip, you will be able to proceed I reckon. Unfortunately not. I had already installed this using MacPorts. :-( If I had the skills I would build a Mac installer package for Frescobaldi, but I dunno how. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
