For some reason Fink has not yet updated their version of GNU emacs. While there are several other options, including Aquamacs, xemacs from Fink and the terminal-only emacs that comes pre-installed on OSX, I missed my traditional GNU Emacs running over X11. Luckily, with a few tweaks to this guide, the process was pretty painless — assuming you've already got Fink installed, just do the following (all from the Terminal):
Posted by bug to Hacks at November 19, 2007 9:33 PMmkdir tmp cd tmp cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org:/sources/emacs co emacs cd emacs fink install libungif libjpeg libtiff export LIBS="-lresolv" ./configure --without-carbon --with-x --prefix=/usr/local make bootstrap make sudo make install cd /usr/local/bin/ sudo ln -s emacs emacs23
I'm having a hell of a time trying to install emacs on my new laptop under X. Yours is the third thing I've tried that's failed. Here's where the commands you suggested fail:
bash-3.2$ fink install libungif libjpeg libtiff
/usr/bin/sudo /sw/bin/fink install libungif libjpeg libtiff
Password:
could not determine XFree86 version number
Information about 113 packages read in 2 seconds.
Failed: no package found for specification 'libungif'!
Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Posted by: ruatango at March 11, 2008 12:32 PM