Hi,

Thanks for this advice, all of which was, indeed, relevant.  I am in the process of phasing out of fink and into MacPorts and there have been some glitches because of the same software living in two places.  

I think I have most things working and am only fighting now with an application we developed locally that depends on some gtk libraries I have from MacPorts (and had from fink).

But emacs is at least working!

Cheers,
Rob



On Feb 27, 2007, at 7:28 PM, M. White wrote:

Hi Rob,

  You can sometimes run into screwy things when you try to update a package installed from another source.  For instance, I installed octave 2.1.73 as a binary from hpc.sourceforge last year with no problems (it did not work completely, but it was okay).  This was installed in /usr/local.  I then installed octave 2.9.9 from hpc.sourceforge and had problems with the functionality.  Then I tried to use the darwin ports of octave.  This did cause me problems.  I had to remove the octave-2.9.9 directories from /usr/local and had to rename /usr/local/include/readline.  The port of octave-2.9.9 would find readline.h directory under /usr/local/include/readline and therefore not create its own readline directory under /opt/local/include.  The problem was that the header had changed.  I found this out in old posts install errors dealing with "readline".  Apparently, when the port is run, it will sometimes go looking for things in your path, and if it finds it anywhere, it can cause problems if it is not fully updated. While I have not tried installing anything from fink, it is possible that something similar is happening.  You can always use "-vdt" on your ports to get more error reporting.

Try the commands: 
   ls -l /opt/local/bin
   which emacs
and if you absolutely have to:
   locate emacs

one of these might point to why you seem to have problems with the uninstall.

However, you should be aware that even if you install this again, I think you may only get a command line editor.  When I ran configure, with the flags, it said it was checking for X, which it did not find, and then checked for /usr/X386 (Xfree86), which it also did not find (since X is under /usr/X11R6, as I recall).  So, it said that it configured emacs but without any windowing capability in the configure report (which you get with the above flags).  I also found the following online from: 
    http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-changes/2006-October/000742.html
"emacs 662
 variants {darwin_8 darwin_7} description {The GNU Emacs text editor (command line only)}"

There are actually a couple of emacs ports.  Try:
   port list  | grep -i emacs
and you will find 5 of them (emacs-app, emacs, emacs-devel, xemacs and emacs-w3m).  You can then do:
   port variants emacs-devel
and 
   port info emacs-devel
this one has a carbon and x11 variants.  emacs-app, is Coca based on Mac OS-X.  One of these might actually be the one you want.

Hopefully one of these will work.  

  - M.

On Feb 27, 2007, at 1:03 PM, macports-users-request@lists.macosforge.org wrote:

Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 07:34:40 -0700
From: Rob MacLeod <macleod@cvrti.utah.edu>
Subject: Re: emacs install breaking
To: Elias Pipping <pipping@macports.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed

Hi

On Feb 26, 2007, at 10:44 PM, Elias Pipping wrote:
sudo port -f activate emacs should solve the problem.


Thanks for the reply.

Unfortunately, this suggestion did not work:

[idsl210:/opt/local]$ sudo port -f activate emacs
Password:
--->  Activating emacs
Error: port activate failed: File exists

And when I try to run the program

  /opt/local/bin/emacs: No such file or directory

So I cannot seem to either completely remove the program or  
completely install it.  Each time it gets to the activate stage, I  
get the report that the file exists.

Thanks for any suggestions!

Cheers,
Rob


Regards,

Elias Pipping


On Feb 27, 2007, at 6:29 AM, Rob MacLeod wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to get emacs working from MacPorts and my first try  
would not launch its own X-window but ran in the xterm where I  
launched it.  It also reported a warning that the directory

/opt/local/share/emacs/21.4/leim

was missing, which it was when I went looking.  I am not sure what  
this directory does or whether its absence explains why emacs was  
lamed.

I am now trying to do a fresh install of emacs but running into  
problems.  I keep getting this error during installation:

--->  Activating emacs 21.4a_1+darwin_8
Error: Target com.apple.activate returned: File exists
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.


I have tried uninstalling emacs using

sudo port uninstall emacs


and then

sudo port clean --all emacs

and still I get this same error.

Does anyone have any guesses about what might be going wrong.

As background, I have used fink since the beginning of OSX time,  
used emacs on Unix for many more years before that.  I am trying  
to move from Fink to Macports but so far, the experience is  
mixed.  I left Fink because it was falling behind on new  
versions.  I hope MacPorts will work for me...

Thanks,

Rob

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