On 5/22/14, 7:44 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote:
> On 5/22/2014 3:50 AM, Sven de Vries wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> fink is a great package manager.
>>
>> However, on emacs, the current package is quite a bit behind:
>> *fink offers 23.4, whereas
>> *at gnu they are at 24.3.
>>
>> Is there any hope for an updated package?
>
> I just tried building emacs24.  It required a couple of minor changes
> from the emacs23 package, but then failed with errors about UTIME_NOW,
> which is a gnulib-ism and doesn't exist on OS X.  There are also
> problems with system getopt functions being redefined (though I think I
> fixed that).  So, it should be possible to make a Fink package, but it's
> going to require some work.  My attempts are here for anyone who wants
> to try:
>
> http://cvs.snaggledworks.com/viewvc.cgi/fink/3rdparty/main/finkinfo/editors/
>
>
> Hanspeter
>
>

Maybe Fink's gnulib package will be helpful here.

-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
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