From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: misleading install instruction in emacs/mac/INSTALL Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:23:30 +0900 Organization: Faculty of Science, Chiba University Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164183840 1516 80.91.229.2 (22 Nov 2006 08:24:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:24:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, Gilbert Harman , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 22 09:23:54 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmnOY-0002ro-JS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:23:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmnOX-0007pL-WB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 03:23:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GmnON-0007ok-C6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 03:23:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GmnOL-0007oB-K5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 03:23:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmnOL-0007o2-Ar for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 03:23:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [133.82.132.2] (helo=mathmail.math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GmnOJ-00047r-0m; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 03:23:35 -0500 Original-Received: from church.math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp (church [133.82.132.36]) by mathmail.math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id BED742CB9; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:23:30 +0900 (JST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.8 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Shij=F2?=) APEL/10.6 Emacs/22.0.91 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:62647 Archived-At: >>>>> On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 02:47:56 -0500, Richard Stallman said: > This produced a version that appears to run OK in the Mac window > system but /usr/local/bin/emacs did not run in X windows. > Apparently it is necessary to do two installations, one using > Would someone please clarify the instructions? Does the following change make things clear? YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp Index: mac/INSTALL =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/mac/INSTALL,v retrieving revision 1.27 diff -c -r1.27 INSTALL *** mac/INSTALL 8 Nov 2006 08:03:21 -0000 1.27 --- mac/INSTALL 22 Nov 2006 08:19:14 -0000 *************** *** 43,65 **** -k' instead of `make' and safely ignore the error messages and use the existing info files. ! After Emacs is installed, you can run it by typing `emacs -nw' from a ! terminal (make sure your path contains /usr/local/bin) or by ! double-clicking on /Applications/Emacs.app in the Finder. To start ! Emacs as a GUI application from the terminal, the pathname to the ! executable in the bundle, i.e., /Application/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs must be typed to the shell to enable Emacs to locate its resources ! correctly. You may want to create a symlink or alias to this path to ! quickly access both the terminal and GUI versions. ! ! If you are building Emacs to run on Mac OS X and X Window System, ! instead of typing `./configure' above, type ./configure --with-x To use colors in a terminal, put the following lines in the file ~/.termcap and log in again. --- 43,73 ---- -k' instead of `make' and safely ignore the error messages and use the existing info files. ! After Emacs is installed, you can run a text-only terminal version by ! typing `emacs' from a terminal (make sure your path contains ! /usr/local/bin) or a GUI application by double-clicking on ! /Applications/Emacs.app in the Finder. Even in the text-only terminal ! version, some Carbon-specific functions such as `mac-set-file-creator' ! are meaningful. ! ! To start Emacs as a GUI application from the terminal, the pathname to ! the executable in the bundle, i.e., /Application/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs must be typed to the shell to enable Emacs to locate its resources ! correctly. You may want to create an alias to this path to quickly ! access both the terminal and GUI versions. You can optionally specify ! some standard Emacs options when invoking Emacs in this way. ! ! Emacs on Mac OS X is not configured to use X11 unless either it is ! requested or the use of Carbon is disabled explicitly. So, if you are ! building Emacs to run on X Window System, you need to specify like: ./configure --with-x + Note that Carbon-specific functions mentioned above are not available + on the X11-enabled build. To use colors in a terminal, put the following lines in the file ~/.termcap and log in again.