From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dane Fundan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Emacs Problem Solved! Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 16:05:52 -0800 (PST) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040204000552.43258.qmail@web41113.mail.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1075853276 4242 80.91.224.253 (4 Feb 2004 00:07:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 00:07:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 04 01:07:44 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AoAa0-0003DJ-00 for ; Wed, 04 Feb 2004 01:07:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AoAZQ-0005fJ-2k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2004 19:07:08 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AoAYp-0005e2-OO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2004 19:06:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AoAYI-0005SH-5m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2004 19:06:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.218.93.29] (helo=web41113.mail.yahoo.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AoAYG-0005Qw-Me for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2004 19:05:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.246.231.14] by web41113.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 03 Feb 2004 16:05:52 PST Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, sanderso@bard.edu X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:16627 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:16627 thanks so much guys :) it boiled down to this: i was using the wrong commands to access the CVS copy with patches of emacs. the correct procedure i did was this (taken almost word for word from "http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-emacs/stories/obtaining-and-building.html": 1) open up terminal (defualts to tcsh) and type in csh to get csh running. 2) enter "setenv CVS_RSH ssh" - sets up ssh 3) enter cvs -z3 -d:ext:anoncvs@savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs co emacs 4) after verifying public key (verify that the site's public key is 80:5a:b0:0c:ec:93:66:29:49:7e:04:2b:fd:ba:2c:d5) hit yes 5) cd emacs 6) once download is complete type ./configure --with-carbon --without-x 7) make bootstrap 8) sudo make install - admin pass required 9) search for "emacs" in finder, and run from there. Thanks again guys.. it simply works! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/