Could someone please summarize what versions of Emacs currently exist
for OS X, along with build choices, in particular whether running on
Aqua or X11 if both are possible -- or point to a web site that does
that?
I've been sort of following this mailing list, but find myself still
stuck in 20.7 running in Terminal because I don't understand what I'm
really supposed to be using, though I've played with just about
everyone I ever saw a reference to. I'm just interested in GNU
Emacs, not XEmacs or anything weirder. I want to run under Aqua
usually, X sometimes. I want the most current version. I use fink,
Fink Commander, XDarwin, and sometimes OroborosX. I want fonts,
mouse clicks, menus, etc. that I can't have in the terminal.
Just for kicks, I just downloaded Emacs from the Savannah repository
for the first time:
cvs -d:pserver:an...@su...:/cvsroot/emacs login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:an...@su...:/cvsroot/emacs co emacs
I cd'd to emacs, and did ./configure. It seemed to decide it should
build for X11:
Configured for `powerpc-apple-darwin5.5'.
Where should the build process find the source code?
/usr/local/src/emacs
What operating system and machine description files should Emacs use?
`s/darwin.h' and `m/powermac.h'
What compiler should emacs be built with? cc -g -O2
Should Emacs use the GNU version of malloc? no
(The GNU allocators don't work with this system configuration.)
Should Emacs use a relocating allocator for buffers? no
Should Emacs use mmap(2) for buffer allocation? no
What window system should Emacs use? x11
What toolkit should Emacs use? LUCID
Should Emacs use a shared game state directory?
${localstatedir}/games/emacs
Where do we find X Windows header files?
/usr/X11R6/include
Where do we find X Windows libraries? /usr/X11R6/lib
Does Emacs use -lXaw3d? yes
Does Emacs use -lXpm? yes
Does Emacs use -ljpeg? yes
Does Emacs use -ltiff? yes
Does Emacs use -lungif? no
Does Emacs use -lpng? yes
Does Emacs use X toolkit scroll bars? yes
Then, following the instructions, I did "make". It complained:
Essential Lisp files seem to be missing. You should either
do `make bootstrap' or create `lisp/abbrev.elc' somehow.
So I did "make bootstrap", and it quickly broke compiling dispnew.c.
[I was not running X11 at the time, and possibly my paths were not
set correctly for X11 as a result, but I didn't look into this at
all.]
I'm actually a very experienced developer, on both MacOS and Unix and
in many languages. I'm sure if I spent the time I could figure out
what's going on. I'm giving this example mainly to show that it
isn't so easy for someone to get themselves an Emacs that works in
Aqua or X11, as opposed to just the terminal. And I don't want to
spend the time when others have done such good work already getting
Emacs onto OS X.
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--- Mitchell L Model
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