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> Cc: macports-users@lists.macosforge.org Message-ID: <CED922F8-4F33-4A2D-BE6A-CFDEBCE97408@cvrti.utah.edu> 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