release: 1.5.40

[lilypond.git] / Documentation / topdocs / INSTALL.texi

diff --git a/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL.texi b/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL.texi
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--- a/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL.texi
+++ b/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL.texi
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-\input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*-
+@node 
+@comment  node-name,  next,  previous,  up\input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*-
 @setfilename INSTALL.info
 @settitle INSTALL - compiling and installing GNU LilyPond
 
@@ -119,10 +120,11 @@ You need the following packages to compile Lilypond.
 @item A reasonably new version of the GNU C++ compiler:  EGCS 1.1, GCC 2.95.2 or
 newer. Check out @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/, the gcc site}.
 
-@item Python (version 1.5 or newer; not 2.1.x)
+@item Python (version 1.5 or newer).
 Check out @uref{http://www.python.org, the python website}.
 
-@item GUILE 1.4 or newer,  check out
+@item GUILE (version 1.4 or newer).
+Check out
 @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html,the GUILE webpage}.
 Version 1.4 is recommended for better performance.
 
@@ -338,8 +340,8 @@ tetex-latex, tetex-dvips, libstdc++, python, ghostscript.
 
 For compilation on a Red Hat system you need these packages, in addition
 to the those needed for running: glibc-devel, gcc-c++, libstdc++-devel,
-guile-devel, flex, bison, texinfo, tetex-devel, groff,
-libgr-progs.
+guile-devel, flex, bison, texinfo, groff, pktrace.
+
 
 
 @subsection LinuxPPC
@@ -516,6 +518,51 @@ interfere with your build, you may want to do this before the build too:
        dpkg --purge lilypond lilypond1.3
 @end example
 
+@subsection MacOS X
+
+LilyPond has been built on Darwin, to be precise, on:
+@example
+    Darwin buoux.aspiratie.nl 5.3 Darwin Kernel Version 5.3: Thu Jan 24
+    22:06:02 PST 2002; root:xnu/xnu-201.19.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC  Power Macintosh powerpc
+@end example
+
+using:   
+
+@example
+    Apple Computer, Inc. version gcc-932.1, based on gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
+@end example
+
+To make sure you have all packages needed to build LilyPond installed,
+run as root:
+
+@example
+        apt-get install bash python guile debianutils flex bison texinfo \
+                ghostscript6 netpbm m4 gettext
+@end example        
+
+and:
+                
+@example
+        fink install tetex
+@end example        
+
+For more information about @file{apt-get} and @file{fink}, see
+@uref{http://fink.sf.net,fink.sourceforge.net}.
+
+@c  brokenness of autoconf; don't ask
+Then, configure, patch, make and install LilyPond using these commands:
+
+@example
+        CC="cc -I/sw/include" CXX="c++ -I/sw/include" LDFLAGS="-L/sw/lib" \
+            ./configure --prefix=/sw
+        make -C lily out/parser.hh out/parser.cc out/config.h
+        patch -p0 < darwin.patch
+        make -C lily out/parser.o
+        make DEPENDENCIES_OUTPUT=/dev/null all
+        make install
+@end example
+
+For installing, you must be root, of course.
 
 @c Why isn't this in BUGS (where it belongs?)
 @section Problems
@@ -540,11 +587,6 @@ LilyPond with gcc-3.0 you may do:
 
 Note that this is fixed in Debian/unstable for flex >= 2.5.4a-13.
 
-@unnumberedsubsec Python-2.1[.1]
-
-Regular expressions are broken in Python 2.1.[.1], either upgrade or
-downgrade python.
-
 @unnumberedsubsec Linux-2.4.0, Guile-1.4 --with-threads
 
 There's a bug in certain kernels around version 2.4.0, that is