From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Angelo Graziosi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mac os x: how do you run emacs in-place? Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 21:18:27 +0100 Message-ID: <54763593.3060809@alice.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417033149 17708 80.91.229.3 (26 Nov 2014 20:19:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 20:19:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Sam Steingold To: emacs developers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 26 21:19:02 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xtj3A-0004L4-PB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2014 21:18:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35891 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xtj39-0002TN-Oj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2014 15:18:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54045) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xtj2z-0002T3-4t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2014 15:18:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xtj2r-0001e3-Lt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2014 15:18:45 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp203.alice.it ([82.57.200.99]:48855) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xtj2j-0001cl-Dc; Wed, 26 Nov 2014 15:18:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.102] (87.21.227.179) by smtp203.alice.it (8.6.060.43) (authenticated as angelo.graziosi@alice.it) id 5475DA410007263A; Wed, 26 Nov 2014 21:18:28 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 82.57.200.99 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:178324 Archived-At: Sam Steingold wrote: > On a normal unix system one can run Emacs from the build directory as > "build/src/emacs", but it does not work on mac os. > Is there a way to run emacs without "make install" ? How do you build it? Have you read nextstep/INSTALL? If you don't use --prefix while configuring, 'make install' put all you need in nextstep/Emacs.app. Usually I don't run 'make' but directly 'make install' after 'configure', then I create a tar-ball cd nextstep apack foo.tar.xz Emacs.app and install it in /usr/local tar -xf foo.tar.xz -C /usr/local After the first run, I have left it on the Dock and run it with that link, but sometimes I have run Emacs directly from commandline with $ open nextstep/Emacs.app or $ open /usr/local/Emacs.app Ciao, Angelo.