+@subsection MacOS X
+
+LilyPond is available through fink, in the unstable cvs distribution.
+
+You need to:
+@itemize @bullet
+@item Get the Fink package manager from @uref{http://fink.sourceforge.net}
+@item Get the Lilypond package description by enabling the "unstable" tree
+in fink and executing @command{fink selfupdate-cvs}.
+@end itemize
+
+Then do:
+@quotation
+@example
+ fink install lilypond-unstable
+@end example
+@end quotation
+
+That's it! The command should compile and install all LilyPond
+prerequisites (python, TeX, X11, ghostscript) and then LilyPond
+itself.
+
+
+@subsection compiling on 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.