Re: Installing emacs-w3m (via el-get) on OS X?

[Peter <pfdavis@gmail.com>]

On Monday, September 17, 2012 1:14:18 PM UTC-4, Peter wrote:
> I'm trying to install w3m on my OS X system so I can read HTML
> 
> messages
> 
> with Wanderlust. I've managed to install el-get and, with that,
> 
> Wanderlust. However, when I try to install emacs-w3m, I get errors
> 
> that
> 
> autoconf is not found:
> 
> 
> 
> el-get is waiting for "/bin/bash" to complete
> 
> emacs-w3m failed to install: (error el-get: /bin/bash el-get could not
> 
> build emacs-w3m [/bin/bash -c autoconf]) [2 times]
> 
> el-get-installation-failed: el-get: /bin/bash el-get could not build
> 
> emacs-w3m [/bin/bash -c autoconf]
> 

I did manage to get this resolved. Although 'which autoconf' worked in a normal shell window, it did not work in emacs shell. I had set both the PATH environment variable and the exec-path variable in emacs, but somehow, emacs shell was using something else. Anyone know where that path comes from? 

Anyway, I wound up creating a symlink to autoconf from /usr/sbin, which was on the emacs shell path, and that worked. 

I could have installed it manually, I suppose, but el-get really makes it easy (usually) to install and manage different packages. 

Thanks,
-pd