On Feb 14, 2013, at 4:44 PM, Marion Dumas <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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

You should file a ticket for this. Attach the main.log.

http://guide.macports.org/chunked/project.html#project.tickets

> 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

You can start by ceasing your haphazard rampage through your system. You just 
deleted the system emacs. Hope you didn't use "rm".

vq
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