Installing Emacs on Mac OS X

Installing Emacs on Mac OS X

[Day]

I'm running Mac OS 10.3.6 on a G4 Cube, trying to install Emacs. When
I attempt to run the configure script, I get the following four lines:

loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin7.6.0
configure: error: Emacs hasn't been ported to
`powerpc-apple-darwin7.6.0' systems.
Check `etc/MACHINES' for recognized configuration names.

I searched 'etc/MACHINES' for 'darwin', 'apple', 'macintosh' and
various related terms to no avail. I only saw the note on Yellow Dog.
The web page (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html#Platforms)
states that Emacs should work under OS X, but I can't find any
indication of it in documentation.

I also found the '/mac' directory, but it seemed to have to do with
making Emacs run under Mac OS 9 and earlier. I hope this is the right
place to send this and I'm not just being inept.


->Ben<-

Re: Installing Emacs on Mac OS X

[Stefan Monnier]

> I'm running Mac OS 10.3.6 on a G4 Cube, trying to install Emacs. When

There is no released version of Emacs that works on Mac OS X, yet.
The Mac OS X support is included in the CVS repository of Emacs, tho, where
it's been working well for a long while already.

You may find precompiled version via Google.  Or you can compile it yourself
by checking it out of the CVS repository.


        Stefan

Re: Installing Emacs on Mac OS X

[Sebastien Kirche]

Le 10 déc 2004, Stefan Monnier vraute :

> > I'm running Mac OS 10.3.6 on a G4 Cube, trying to install Emacs. When
> 
> There is no released version of Emacs that works on Mac OS X, yet. The Mac
> OS X support  is included in the CVS repository of  Emacs, tho, where it's
> been working well for a long while already.
> 
> You  may  find precompiled  version  via Google.  Or  you  can compile  it
> yourself by checking it out of the CVS repository.

If you don't care  trying a bleeding edge cvs version, i  have built the OSX
installer from the  CVS (dated Nov. 12  2004) with my 10.3.6 OSX  and put it
there :

http://sebastien.kirche.free.fr/emacs_stuff/EmacsInstaller-cvs20041112.dmg.bz2

It  is built  with «make-package  --self-contained»  so it  will install  an
Emacs.app in /Applications folder.

Regards,
Sébastien Kirche