[Mac-emacs-users] Re: Emacs 21.3.50

[Seth T. <se...@ti...>]

Rodney Sparapani wrote:
> Gang:
> 
> I had trouble with the latest code via CVS. It was failing due to the 
> non-existence
> of the directory mac/Contents/. Instead it created ../mac/Contents. So, 
> I created
> this directory by hand, and make completes fine. But, then make install 
> fails:
> 
> cd /Users/rodney/cvs/emacs/man; makeinfo tramp.texi
> tramp.texi:25: Unknown command `copying'.
> tramp.texi:50: Unmatched `@end'.
> makeinfo: Removing output file `../info/tramp' due to errors; use 
> --force to preserve.
> make[1]: *** [../info/tramp] Error 2
> make: *** [info] Error 2

I had this same problem.  Do you have Fink installed?  In my case,
removing the Fink directories from my PATH environment variable
and then recompiling fixed the problem.  Apparently the version
of makeinfo I had in Fink wasn't happy with the tramp.texi file,
but the one Apple ships likes it fine.

Seth Tisue
http://tisue.net
se...@ti...