On Nov 19, 2007, at 4:04 PM, Bertrand H.J. Biritz wrote:
Dear MacPorts-users,
I am running 10.5.1 on a PowerBook G4 1.67GHz machine. I tried installing emacs, but end up with an error.
Strange thing is the only mention of such a problem is with the emacs-devel package - hopefully I am just missing something simple.
Thanks, Bertrand
$ sudo port clean emacs ---> Cleaning emacs $ sudo port install emacs +x11
[snip]
make[1]: *** [emacs] Abort trap make[1]: *** Deleting file `emacs' make: *** [src] Error 2
That might be the same problem I had building emacs +gtk on 10.5 ppc. I found this patch that seems to solve the problem if I build from source outside of ports: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs/16867 I submitted a bug in trac, but I guess it hasn't been acted on yet. You could possibly download the source and build it and install somewhere like /opt/emacs until the port is fixed. Kendall