Comments on: Emacs in MacOS X 10.5 Leopard

by: mikeb

Fri, 16 May 2008 11:12:59 +0000

General caveat: things may have moved on since last November. In particular, it sounds like MacPorts (used to be “DarwinPorts”) at least has caught up.

@Eric:
Take a look in config.log to see what the precise problem is (likely to be a library it can’t find). Reinstalling the XCode distribution may help.

Unless you specifically want to use X, you could Carbonise the emacs that is distributed with Leopard, or use the disk image.

@Peter:
/usr/bin/emacs, if it’s indeed the one distributed with Leopard, will run in a term. You can also force this with “emacs -nw”, as Tony mentioned.

by: tonyg

Wed, 14 May 2008 18:22:19 +0000

@MG: Does “emacs -nw” work? It should run in your terminal, without opening a new X window. Alternatively, unset DISPLAY (or set it to the empty string) before running emacs, perhaps.

by: MG

Wed, 14 May 2008 17:10:59 +0000

For now I’m just going to install the MacPorts version.

by: MG

Wed, 14 May 2008 17:07:08 +0000

I followed your steps to apply the patch, and it worked perfectly, except now my version of EMACS is the GUI version (running in X11).

Do you know if it's possible to use the same install to run the non-graphical flavor (the default on 10.4 at least)?

by: Eric

Wed, 07 May 2008 06:13:51 +0000

Hi when I try the ocnfigure command I get:

/Users/ericg/emacs-22.1>./configure --without-carbon --with-x --prefix=/usr/local checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin9.2.2 checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin9.2.2 checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details.

Any help is appreciated !

Eric

by: Heiko

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:18:30 +0000

Thanks man, I tried option “Compile your own Emacs” and was there in 5 min. This was very helpful for me!

by: Peter Szolovits

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:32:25 +0000

I’m confused by this thread. On my 10.5.2 system, the only emacs installation I see in the places mentioned here is /usr/bin/emacs, which tells me it’s version 21.2.1. I do use Aquamacs (and like it, despite having been an emacs user since the first version), but would like a simple emacs that can run in a terminal window for quick edits.

by: mikeb

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:47:31 +0000

Catherine,

/usr/bin/emacs will almost certainly be the one that came with Leopard. But it looks like another one is first in your path.

You can find out what just ‘emacs’ gets you by typing “which emacs” — probably the result will be /usr/local/emacs (built locally or maybe from Darwin Ports) or /sw/bin/emacs (from Fink). “echo $PATH” will tell you where and in which order the shell is looking.

You’ll need to be superuser to remove things under /sw/bin:
“sudo rm /sw/bin/emacs”.

HTH,
mikeb

by: Catherine

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:41:56 +0000

NB if I do
emacs –version

I get
GNU Emacs 21.2.1
Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of Emacs
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.

So, a different version..

by: Catherine

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:40:09 +0000

I had the problem described above, i.e. I’ve just upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5 and when I try to use emacs I get the following error:

Fatal malloc_jumpstart() error

I tried to delete /sw/bin/emacs, as suggested above under “Use the emacs that comes with Leopard”, but it said “Permission denied”.

I then did:
/usr/bin/emacs –version
and got:
GNU Emacs 22.1.1
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of Emacs
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.

So it would seem that it is the correct version (22.1.1, right?), but it’s still not working. Any ideas?