Thanks! You're right, I'm supposed to use `port install mu +emacs`.
(Which is hanging right now, but that's off topic for this list. I'll
post an update if I need to use any special heroics to get it
working.)



On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Joost Kremers <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13 2014, Ryan Tate <[email protected]> wrote:
>> From the manual:
>>
>>>If emacs complains that it cannot find mu4e, check your load-path and make 
>>>sure that mu4e's installation directory is part of it.
>>
>> Emacs is indeed complaining that it cannot find mu4e, but I'm not sure where 
>> to poke for mu4e's installation directory as I thought it was supposed to 
>> install alongside mu? (mu4e is certainly not in my usual emacs package 
>> repos.)
>>
>> I installed mu via a package manager (MacPorts on OS X). Any clues where I 
>> should start to poke for mu4e install directory? Even if only in relation to 
>> the mu install directory, which I can presumably track down with some 
>> research into where MacPorts puts things.
>
> The mu portfile[1] lists --disable-mu4e as one of the configure
> arguments, so unless you explicitly select the emacs variant of the mu
> port, mu4e isn't installed at all. (I can't tell you how to select the
> emacs variant in MacPorts, though... It's been a long time since I used
> MacPorts, I preferred Homebrew when I still used OS X on my iMac.)
>
> But when it's installed, you'll probably find mu4e in
> /opt/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/ given that MacPorts installs stuff to
> /opt/local.
>
> HTH
>
> Joost
>
>
>
> [1] https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/mail/mu/Portfile
>
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