From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark Hood Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Installation problem. Date: 03 Oct 2007 17:44:11 -0700 Message-ID: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191506450 23674 80.91.229.12 (4 Oct 2007 14:00:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 14:00:50 +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 16:00:46 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 1IdRFh-00048r-R9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:00:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IdRFd-0002Ha-4O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:00:29 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!216.196.98.140.MISMATCH!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.speakeasy.net!news.speakeasy.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:44:15 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Lines: 19 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.81.66.151 Original-X-Trace: sv3-jzoE2SMK+Ea+3HN6ZTteJaoIri9VBoOIEHZLC7TUxlhpt0lKxOBDXnMoAkp06GkT99NXCiubXgFXOqW!jKHCBDDcMNN5X9oDvhR0HAOAEaML0a+kD0ZkTwtJ81putcvo4aH+0pMb5fZVSPqVS8V6YS+Xkqi+!Sa0/YD/HUDxt Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@speakeasy.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@speakeasy.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.36 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152592 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:00:09 -0400 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:48116 Archived-At: Andrew Walrond writes: > Peter Dyballa wrote: > > > > Without the Developer Tools installed, Fink won't install GNU Emacs > > except a binary package exists for GNU Emacs. Most Fink packages are > > source, so you need compilers (C, C++, Fortran, Java, ...) to install them. > > > > You are of course correct. I had forgotten about having to download and > install the Developer Tools first. 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. -- Mark