From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Warren Oates Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Installation problem. Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:22:20 -0400 Organization: The Lady in Red Inc. Message-ID: <47044e70$0$14967$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com> References: <49882.129.240.176.57.1191328619.squirrel@webmail.uio.no> <47025A17.5080206@walrond.org> <9E8C992C-DE42-4490-821E-A2FEE30342F9@Web.DE> <4703402E.5070900@walrond.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191465646 24595 80.91.229.12 (4 Oct 2007 02:40:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 02:40:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 04 04:40:41 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IdGdj-00028p-HT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:40:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IdGde-0003de-V2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:40:34 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news.astraweb.com!border2.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: All the News that Fits (1.0) X-Wild-Bunch: Best movie ever. X-Face: bqwyg^Z4?W"; Mw*V/t3-s%n3'y; VV[XQ66lNZ^Q3!o>NL]c|8PMF9%Rn?E8>xL`)@4@c+79 j0zXB7BEZz$z2p/qcb2;,GZ.+lDH):);n4zr2t/8cT4]YMo4W`; Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152594 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:48101 Archived-At: In article , Mark Hood wrote: > I'm new to Mac OS X... is fink worth looking at? > > I needed an Emacs and found http://www.porkrind.org/emacs which has > precompiled binaries for something called Carbon Emacs, and it works > just like the Emacs I've always known and loved without any need to > build anything. That's a good way to get Emacs for OS X, the builds are reasonably up-to-date. If you have the developer tools, though, you can build your own, one for the Terminal, one for the GUI (the Carbon Emacs), and you can be totally up-to-date. Some people don't care about that, some do. I've got 23.0.50 running here, Carbon and CLI, from CVS, with OS X 10.4.10. I don't use fink, I keep my own /usr/local going; I've got some pretty weird stuff in there. You might also look at Rudix: http://rudix.org/ there's a version of Xemacs there (in updates), plus they patch and build some of the stuff that's difficult with Darwin (gmp and Lua come to mind). Surprisingly, some stuff you'd think you might have trouble with builds fast and clean (Apache 2, PHP 5). Sorry for the OT. -- W. Oates