emacs-mac-app port build failure

Sean Farley sean at macports.org
Thu Feb 14 14:00:53 PST 2013


Marion Dumas writes:

> Hello,
>
> I wanted to de-install and re-install Emacs on my mac (10.5.8). I de- 
> installed Emacs.app by simply deleting the contents. I then downloaded  
> the emacsformac dmg installer but it just doesn't work: the  
> application crashes at launch. I tried installing through macports and  
> it fails to build.
>
> Error: org.macports.build for port emacs-mac-app returned: command  
> execution failed Please see the log file for port emacs-mac-app for  
> details:
>
>   Error: Processing of port emacs-mac-app failed
>
> After that, I tried looking for other emacs related files on my  
> computer in case they were conflicting with the new ones (so removing / 
> usr/bin/emacs and /usr/share/emacs), but that didn't help.
>
> Thanks for any tips! I am befuddled
>
> I'm attaching the log file.

Thanks for the report. It looks like I missed libxml, ncurses, and
gnutls as dependencies. I'll try to get a fix out today (and also update
to the newest version).


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