Re: Emacs 23.1 on Mac OS X 10.6.1 (Snow Leopard) - build failed

[Harald Maier <harald@maierh.de>]

David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com> writes:

> On Nov 8, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Florent Georges wrote:
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  I've just bought a new MacBook Pro.  I've installed Apple's
>> Xcode (version "Xcode 3.2.1 for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard",
>> filename "xcode321_10m2003_developerdvd.dmg".)  Then I tried to
>> build GNU Emacs 23.1 (from release file "emacs-23.1.tar.bz2".)
>
> Don't use the release - I don't think it builds.
> Check out the head/master branch via CVS or the git mirror, then build
> with
>
> CC='gcc -arch i386' ./configure --with-ns
>
> (Not sure if the above CC workaround is still needed at this point.
> OS X 10.6 will build with 64bit by default, which was the problem
> there - a patch is either in the works or has been checked in recently
> so you can build a 64bit variant.  Somebody told me it's snappier.)

64bit works fine for me:

GNU Emacs 23.1.50.2 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.0.0, NS apple-appkit-1038.11)
 of 2009-11-09 on ate.maierh

$ file Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs
Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64

Harald