From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brian Schack Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Compiling 21.4 for OS X 10.3.9 Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:36:30 +0800 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134497416 23217 80.91.229.2 (13 Dec 2005 18:10:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:10:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 13 19:10:13 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from [199.232.75.2] (helo=lists.gnu.org) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EmEb5-0003YP-VW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:09:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EmEbe-0003FR-67 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:10:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Em2wg-0005CA-Eg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:43:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Em2we-0005By-9y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:43:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Em2we-0005Bv-6r for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:43:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [165.212.64.32] (helo=cmsout02.mbox.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Em2yU-0001Uv-HD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:45:18 -0500 Original-Received: from cmsout02.mbox.net (cmsout02.mbox.net [165.212.64.32]) by cmsout02.mbox.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26A784C8F8 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 05:42:49 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from uadvg130.cms.usa.net [165.212.11.130] by cmsout02.mbox.net via smtad (C8.MAIN.3.27I); Tue, 13 Dec 2005 05:42:49 GMT X-USANET-Source: 165.212.11.130 IN brian.schack@usa.net uadvg130.cms.usa.net X-USANET-MsgId: XID946JLmFQx2769X02 Original-Received: from Brian-Schacks-Computer.local [61.231.67.75] by uadvg130.cms.usa.net (ASMTP/brian.schack@usa.net) via mtad (C8.MAIN.3.27E) with ESMTP id 592JLmFQv0092M30; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 05:42:47 GMT X-USANET-Auth: 61.231.67.75 AUTH brian.schack@usa.net Brian-Schacks-Computer.local Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.17 (Jumbo Shrimp, darwin) Z-USANET-MsgId: XID592JLmFQv0092X30 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:30:57 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-Broken-Reverse-DNS: no host name found for IP address 199.232.75.2 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:14632 Archived-At: Hi, I recently tried to compile GNU Emacs 21.4 on OS X 10.3.9. According to the documentation at www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html, OS X is supported, but when I ran configure, I immediately got this: % ./configure creating cache ./config.cache checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0 configure: error: Emacs hasn't been ported to `powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0' systems. % However, I *can* compile the so-called Emacs.app (see emacs-app.sourceforge.net), which is based on GNU Emacs 23.0.0. Aside from having files to describe the OS X system in src/s and src/m, I note that the configure system for Emacs.app seems far more up-to-date. For example, the configure command in 21.4 has this in the header: # Generated automatically using autoconf version 2.13 # Copyright (C) 1992, 93, 94, 95, 96 Free Software Foundation, Inc. But the configure command in Emacs.app looks like this: # Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.59. # Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This makes me wonder - was an old version of the configure system accidentally released with 21.4? Or was this a conscious decision, and I have to wait for the next major release before I can compile Emacs for OS X? Brian -- Brian Schack mailto: brian.schack@usa.net 19 Hsu Chang Street 2F phone: 2381 4727 Taipei 100 fax: 2381 2145 TAIWAN