From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pete Oster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Setting up Emacs, AucTeX and (La)TeX on Mac OSX Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:08:53 GMT Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045243178 2242 80.91.224.249 (14 Feb 2003 17:19:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:19:38 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18jjQH-00006q-00 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 18:14:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18jjNB-0004GY-07 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 12:11:37 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!news.compaq.com!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!mtvwca1-snh1.ops.genuity.net!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!paloalto-snr1.gtei.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.text.tex,comp.emacs Original-Followup-To: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Darwin) Original-Lines: 68 Original-X-Trace: +LI5qeQGIBcQMUC5jnwg0neWhEKTyY3q6fLRYoG2DNUt1ZJQjvhZOUCXllcv18x3SL4zoyo3mTnz!ezkMUag9XaSy8cNjbNRphuXMkY6aXo4obQdvVCj2H60JcvSuFacH2gYSjt6t9H5s+vq0atVpKqUW!pg== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@gte.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:08:52 GMT Original-Distribution: world Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110198 comp.text.tex:242447 comp.emacs:77617 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6702 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6702 In article , D. D. Brierton wrote: > First questions: is it best (or necessary) to install the X server Apple > recently released, or are there native Aqua builds of Emacs There's a nice native (carbon) build of fsf emacs 21.3. I'm using it to compose this followup. See http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-emacs/ There are prebuilt binaries of this around but I wouldn't recommend using them. Unless you want mine, which I'm happy to upload... Installing Apple's X11 server and either xemacs 21.4 or an X11 fsf emacs 21.2 is also a perfectly good option. See: http://fink.sourceforge.net/ Fink is Debian-style package manager with osx/darwin ports of many popular gnu packages. Most, including xemacs 21.4, are available prebuilt for osx 10.2 As for TeX, I've never used it. But fink includes a number of what seem to be LaTeX and TeTex-related packages. > Next question: are there nice prebuilt binary packages which we can download > and install, or do we need to build from source, and if so, does the > bog-standard OSX install contain all the necessary developer tools? See above. If you use fink, you can probably download prebuilt binaries. If you need to compile your own, you'll have to install Apple's 'Developer Tools'. You'll also need this if you decide to build the carbon emacs 21.3. The standard osx commercial package includes a Dev Tools cd. If you don't have that, you can download a Dev Tools disk image for free from Apple. But don't do it on a dialup connection... > Last (for now): how similar are the standard install paths on OSX to Linux? > Can I just make install auctex into /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp? And do > whatever LaTeX macros she needs go into ~/texmf? The fink system wants to stay out of Apple's way, so it installs everything in /sw. If you use fink, add /sw/bin and /sw/sbin to PATH. If you want to build your own packages without fink, /usr/local is a perfectly reasonable target. I don't know LaTex at all but if you use fink's I'm sure it will behave just as it does in any other unix. If that means ~/texmf, the same will apply in osx. > If there is a better place to post ask this kind of thing (e.g. an Aqua/OSX > for Linux users newsgroup) then please let me know. Possibly comp.sys.mac.system.