Starting Emacs (For Mac OS X) from the command line

Starting Emacs (For Mac OS X) from the command line

[Johannes Brauer]

Hi,

in order to start Emacs from the command line I created an emacs script an described in https://emacsformacosx.com/tips:

#!/bin/sh
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs "$@"

Starting Emacs from command line for example with

emacs -Q x.txt

Emacs is started but I always get this warning:

Warning: arch-dependent data dir '/Users/build/workspace/Emacs-Multi-Build/label/macos10.14/emacs-source/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/libexec/': No such file or directory

How can I get rid of it?

My versions:
Emacs 27.2
macOs 11.6.1

Johannes

Re: Starting Emacs (For Mac OS X) from the command line

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On Nov 4, 2021, at 22:35, Johannes Brauer <brauer@nordakademie.de> wrote:
> 
> Warning: arch-dependent data dir '/Users/build/workspace/Emacs-Multi-Build/label/macos10.14/emacs-source/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/libexec/': No such file or directory
> 
> How can I get rid of it?

By creating it ?

-- 
Jean-Christophe Helary @brandelune
https://mac4translators.blogspot.com
https://sr.ht/~brandelune/omegat-as-a-book/

Re: Starting Emacs (For Mac OS X) from the command line

[Johannes Brauer]

> Am 04.11.2021 um 14:57 schrieb Jean-Christophe Helary <lists@traduction-libre.org>:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Nov 4, 2021, at 22:35, Johannes Brauer <brauer@nordakademie.de> wrote:
>> 
>> Warning: arch-dependent data dir '/Users/build/workspace/Emacs-Multi-Build/label/macos10.14/emacs-source/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/libexec/': No such file or directory
>> 
>> How can I get rid of it?
> 
> By creating it ?
I cannot imagine that this could be a reasonable solution. What could be the content of that file?

Johannes

Re: Starting Emacs (For Mac OS X) from the command line

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On Nov 4, 2021, at 23:09, Johannes Brauer <brauer@nordakademie.de> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Am 04.11.2021 um 14:57 schrieb Jean-Christophe Helary <lists@traduction-libre.org>:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 4, 2021, at 22:35, Johannes Brauer <brauer@nordakademie.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Warning: arch-dependent data dir '/Users/build/workspace/Emacs-Multi-Build/label/macos10.14/emacs-source/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/libexec/': No such file or directory
>>> 
>>> How can I get rid of it?
>> 
>> By creating it ?
> I cannot imagine that this could be a reasonable solution. What could be the content of that file?

Just "touch" the directory, since it seems to be a directory.

I checked on my side and MacOS/libexec does not seem to contain extremely important files:
/MacOS/libexec/rcs2log

this is a "RCS to ChangeLog generator"

/MacOS/libexec/hexl
/MacOS/libexec/Emacs.pdmp

Those 2 are binary files.

So, yes, just "touch" the directory and restart Emacs.

-- 
Jean-Christophe Helary @brandelune
https://mac4translators.blogspot.com
https://sr.ht/~brandelune/omegat-as-a-book/

Re: Starting Emacs (For Mac OS X) from the command line

[tomas]

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On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 11:46:34PM +0900, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
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> 
> > On Nov 4, 2021, at 23:09, Johannes Brauer <brauer@nordakademie.de> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >> Am 04.11.2021 um 14:57 schrieb Jean-Christophe Helary <lists@traduction-libre.org>:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> On Nov 4, 2021, at 22:35, Johannes Brauer <brauer@nordakademie.de> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> Warning: arch-dependent data dir '/Users/build/workspace/Emacs-Multi-Build/label/macos10.14/emacs-source/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/libexec/': No such file or directory

[...]

To me, libexec sounds like a place where Emacs looks for
external executables (which probably come with the Emacs
distribution itself).

> I checked on my side and MacOS/libexec does not seem to contain extremely important files:
> /MacOS/libexec/rcs2log

[...]

Exactly. So your Emacs might complain if you do anything
it would need one of those external programs for.

Perhaps your installation has put them elsewhere? Or
perhaps the ever-stranger OS has somehow blocked access
to it in a weird way?

Cheers
 - t

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Re: Starting Emacs (For Mac OS X) from the command line

[Johannes Brauer]

Am 04.11.2021 um 15:46 schrieb Jean-Christophe Helary <lists@traduction-libre.org<mailto:lists@traduction-libre.org>>:



On Nov 4, 2021, at 23:09, Johannes Brauer <brauer@nordakademie.de<mailto:brauer@nordakademie.de>> wrote:


Am 04.11.2021 um 14:57 schrieb Jean-Christophe Helary <lists@traduction-libre.org<mailto:lists@traduction-libre.org>>:



On Nov 4, 2021, at 22:35, Johannes Brauer <brauer@nordakademie.de<mailto:brauer@nordakademie.de>> wrote:

Warning: arch-dependent data dir '/Users/build/workspace/Emacs-Multi-Build/label/macos10.14/emacs-source/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/libexec/': No such file or directory

How can I get rid of it?

By creating it ?
I cannot imagine that this could be a reasonable solution. What could be the content of that file?

Just "touch" the directory, since it seems to be a directory.

I checked on my side and MacOS/libexec does not seem to contain extremely important files:
/MacOS/libexec/rcs2log

this is a "RCS to ChangeLog generator"

/MacOS/libexec/hexl
/MacOS/libexec/Emacs.pdmp

Those 2 are binary files.

So, yes, just "touch" the directory and restart Emacs.


thanks, I did it and it works

Johannes

Re: Starting Emacs (For Mac OS X) from the command line

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

>>>>> On Nov 4, 2021, at 22:35, Johannes Brauer <brauer@nordakademie.de> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Warning: arch-dependent data dir '/Users/build/workspace/Emacs-Multi-Build/label/macos10.14/emacs-source/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/libexec/': No such file or directory
>>>>> 
>>>>> How can I get rid of it?
>>>> 
>>>> By creating it ?
>>> I cannot imagine that this could be a reasonable solution. What could be the content of that file?
>> 
>> Just "touch" the directory, since it seems to be a directory.
> 
> thanks, I did it and it works

The question of "why you did not have the directory installed" is optional but now that it works, and if you want, you probably can investigate.

-- 
Jean-Christophe Helary @brandelune
https://mac4translators.blogspot.com
https://sr.ht/~brandelune/omegat-as-a-book/

Re: Starting Emacs (For Mac OS X) from the command line

[Yuri Khan]

On Fri, 5 Nov 2021 at 04:20, Jean-Christophe Helary
<lists@traduction-libre.org> wrote:

> >>>>> Warning: arch-dependent data dir '/Users/build/workspace/Emacs-Multi-Build/label/macos10.14/emacs-source/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/libexec/': No such file or directory

> The question of "why you did not have the directory installed" is optional but now that it works, and if you want, you probably can investigate.

The real question is why a binary intended for installation on an end
user’s machine refers to a directory in the build environment. Surely
/Users/build is either the home directory of a user called ‘build’ or
should not exist at all?

Re: Starting Emacs (For Mac OS X) from the command line

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On Nov 5, 2021, at 15:47, Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 5 Nov 2021 at 04:20, Jean-Christophe Helary
> <lists@traduction-libre.org> wrote:
> 
>>>>>>> Warning: arch-dependent data dir '/Users/build/workspace/Emacs-Multi-Build/label/macos10.14/emacs-source/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/libexec/': No such file or directory
> 
>> The question of "why you did not have the directory installed" is optional but now that it works, and if you want, you probably can investigate.
> 
> The real question is why a binary intended for installation on an end
> user’s machine refers to a directory in the build environment. Surely
> /Users/build is either the home directory of a user called ‘build’ or
> should not exist at all?

Indeed, I thought it was weird that the user's name was "build", but that seems to be the case.

-- 
Jean-Christophe Helary @brandelune
https://mac4translators.blogspot.com
https://sr.ht/~brandelune/omegat-as-a-book/

Re: Starting Emacs (For Mac OS X) from the command line

[2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE]

On 2021-11-04 at 14:09:33 +0000,
Johannes Brauer <brauer@nordakademie.de> wrote:

> > Am 04.11.2021 um 14:57 schrieb Jean-Christophe Helary <lists@traduction-libre.org>:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> On Nov 4, 2021, at 22:35, Johannes Brauer <brauer@nordakademie.de> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Warning: arch-dependent data dir '/Users/build/workspace/Emacs-Multi-Build/label/macos10.14/emacs-source/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/libexec/': No such file or directory
> >> 
> >> How can I get rid of it?
> > 
> > By creating it ?
> I cannot imagine that this could be a reasonable solution. What could be the content of that file?

Based on the familiar name and the trailing slash, that's a directory,
not a file, and an empty directory will be good enough (at least good
enough to expose the next issue!).