Re: MacOS X Emacs

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

Andrew Choi <akochoi@shaw.ca> writes:

|> > I just tried to build Emacs under Darwin with $srcdir != $builddir
|> > and had some problems with ${emacsapp}.  Is the following patch
|> > correct?  Then I tried to run the emacs in the build directory, but
|> > I got an abort in macterm, because GetNewCWindow returned 0.  Any
|> > idea?  (emacs -nw works fine.)
|> > 
|> > Andreas.
|> > 
|> > 2002-06-18  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@suse.de>
|> > 
|> > 	* Makefile.in (${emacsapp}Contents/MacOS/Emacs): Support building
|> > 	outside source directory.
|> > 	(${emacsapp}Contents/Resources/Emacs.rsrc): Likewise.
|> >
|> > [...]
|> 
|> Hi Andreas,
|> 
|> The entire directory under `mac/Emacs.app/' must remain intact for
|> Emacs to run in GUI mode under Mac OS X.  Otherwise Emacs won't be
|> able to find the resources it requires to run.  That's probably what
|> happened.

So what is the right way to handle these rules?  Should emacsapp be
changed to point to ${srcdir}../mac/Emacs.app?  If yes I'll check in this
patch:

2002-06-18  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@suse.de>

	* Makefile.in (emacsapp): Prepend ${srcdir}.
	(${emacsapp}Contents/MacOS/Emacs): Support building outside source
	directory.
	(${emacsapp}Contents/Resources/Emacs.rsrc): Likewise.

--- src/Makefile.in.~1.255.~	2002-05-22 10:45:19.000000000 +0200
+++ src/Makefile.in	2002-06-18 21:30:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ MSDOS_OBJ = dosfns.o msdos.o w16select.o
 #ifdef HAVE_CARBON
 XMENU_OBJ =
 MAC_OBJ = mac.o macterm.o macfns.o macmenu.o fontset.o
-emacsapp = ../mac/Emacs.app/
+emacsapp = ${srcdir}/../mac/Emacs.app/
 #else
 XMENU_OBJ = xmenu.o
 #endif
@@ -1203,16 +1203,15 @@ macosx-app: ${emacsapp}Contents/MacOS/Em
   ${emacsapp}Contents/Resources/Emacs.rsrc
 
 ${emacsapp}Contents/MacOS/Emacs: emacs
-	if [ -d ${emacsapp}Contents/MacOS/ ]; then true; else \
-	  mkdir ${emacsapp}Contents/MacOS/; \
-	fi
-	cd ${emacsapp}Contents/MacOS/; cp ../../../../src/emacs Emacs
+	${srcdir}/../mkinstalldirs ${emacsapp}Contents/MacOS
+	cp emacs ${emacsapp}Contents/MacOS/Emacs
 
-${emacsapp}Contents/Resources/Emacs.rsrc: ../mac/src/Emacs.r
+${emacsapp}Contents/Resources/Emacs.rsrc: ${srcdir}/../mac/src/Emacs.r
+	${srcdir}/../mkinstalldirs ${emacsapp}Contents/Resources
 	/Developer/Tools/Rez -useDF -o \
 	${emacsapp}Contents/Resources/Emacs.rsrc \
 	/System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Headers/Carbon.r \
-	../mac/src/Emacs.r
+	${srcdir}/../mac/src/Emacs.r
 #endif
 
 ${libsrc}emacstool: ${libsrc}emacstool.c

|> Also, currently it can only be started from the Finder (see
|> mac/INSTALL).  You can copy Emacs.app to another location (which shows
|> up simply as the application `Emacs' in the Finder), but you must copy
|> the whole thing (use drag-and-drop in the Finder or `cp -r').

Thanks, that works.  But Emacs should not simply abort just because
GetNewCWindow failed.  Instead it should print an error message and exit,
since that is not an internal error.

Andreas.

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