>> Ah, now I remember, thanks! I wasn't fluent enough then with the
>> 'ports' program to find out which of the dependencies actually uses
>> libpaper, since LilyPond itself [doesn't use it](
>> https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/textproc/lilypond/Portfile
>> )
>
> It's most likely texlive-bin (even thought lilypond only require
> texlive-fonts-recommended end texlive-metapost, they both require
> texlive-bin as a dependency) or ghostscript.
Thanks. I think it's ghostscript – there are no pre-built packages
available either. While LilyPond doesn't link to it in normal builds,
gs is needed for converting LilyPond's EPS output files to PDF. In
other words, a MacPorts user still needs a compiler...
Werner