Hi Tom, I was able to install MacPorts OK on Mac PowerBook Pro running OS X Leopard.
However, my attempt to install solfege failed, because I am running the version of Xcode (3.0) that shipped with OS X Leopard at the time I bought it. The MacPorts install for OS X Leopard requires Xcode version 3.1. The MacPorts installation notes imply that you can simply install the version of Xcode that came with your OS X Leopard installation disks. For some lucky users this may be true (perhaps Apple now ship Xcode 3.1 with these disks) It is not true for me. It took MacPorts about 30 minutes of installing various pieces of software before it checked that I had an incompatible version of Xcode. This strikes me as somewhat dumb. Shouldn't a smart installer be able to check the pre-requisites first, before it builds and installs 30 minutes worth of software? My fault, obviously. in part. I should have checked what version of Xcode I had installed. I just assumed I had installed the right version because it was the one that shipped with OS X. Looks like I'm going to need to download a 1G (sic) pre-requisite just to upgrade solfege! All in all, I found the fink installation process that I previously used to install solfege easier to use - though I guess this could still work if only users followed the instructions. Regards, Peter Dann On 29/03/2009, at 6:16 AM, Tom Cato Amundsen wrote: > Nice work! > People, please post a reply to this message to the list if you have > tried the macport, and let us know if it works or not. > > Tom Cato > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Allen McBride <[email protected] > > wrote: >> Hi Tom Cato and everyone, >> >> With the help of MacPorts project manager Rainer Müller, Solfege >> 3.14.0 is now available via MacPorts (http://www.macports.org/). >> I'll >> work on writing up basic instructions for the wiki soon, explaining >> what MacPorts is and where to find instructions for installing and >> using it. In the meantime, anyone who already uses MacPorts should >> be >> able to install Solfege in the usual MacPorts way. If you try it and >> run into trouble, let me know. I think Rainer and I are the only >> people who have tested it so far. >> >> Details: >> Rainer wrote a patchfile for default.config, so a Mac user using >> MacPorts shouldn't need to mess with Solfege's preferences to get >> basic MIDI playback working. So no more "No module named >> _solfege_c_midi" error, hopefully. Also, in order to keep things >> simple for now, the port does not attempt to install CSound for the >> intonation exercises, nor does it attempt to install audio converters >> for lesson file export. Users can still add these on themselves. >> >> --Allen >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Solfege-devel mailing list >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe", or visit >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/solfege-devel >> > > > > -- > Tom Cato Amundsen <[email protected]> http:// > www.solfege.org/ > GNU Solfege - free ear training http://www.gnu.org/software/ > solfege/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Solfege-devel mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe", or visit > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/solfege-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Solfege-devel mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe", or visit https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/solfege-devel
