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-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 07:34:40 -0700
From: Rob MacLeod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: emacs install breaking
To: Elias Pipping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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
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