[OS X TeX] Emacs compilation time

[Thøger Juul Thorsen]

Bruno;

To build Emacs as a self-contained Carbon app (i.e. completely 
relocatable), do this:

Make a directory called Emacs, or something.  cd to the directory in 
Terminal, then build Info with

  curl -O ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.3.tar.gz
  tar zxf texinfo-4.3.tar.gz
  cd texinfo-4.3
  CFLAGS="-g -O2 -D_INTL_REDIRECT_MACROS" ./configure
  make
  sudo make install

This then makes Emacs:

cd ..
  export CVS_RSH="ssh"
  cvs -z3 -d:ext:anoncvs at savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs co emacs
    (verify that the site's public key is 
80:5a:b0:0c:ec:93:66:29:49:7e:04:2b:fd:ba:2c:d5)
  cd emacs/mac
  ./make-package --self-contained

This will create a self-contained emacs and place an installer in a .dmg 
in the emacs/mac directory.
Now open the .dmg and drag the Application to your /Applications folder, 
and you're done.

(This is a slightly changed cersion of what Tim Larkin on the OS X Emacs 
list sent to me)

This is the newest Emacs and supports images. I'm not sure how to 
install AUCTeX and preview-atex for this one though...

/Thøger


Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 21 déc. 04, à 15:02, Jose Carrion a écrit :
>
>> By the way, maybe you have some special reason to compile Emacs on 
>> your machine, but I found that the version on 
>> http://mindlube.com/products/emacs/index.html (compiled from source 
>> some time in May) works great.  It comes as an application bundle and 
>> works "out of the box".
>
>
> Jose, Thoeger,
>
> Thanks for your answers. I had been trying the emacs compilation 
> essentially to get my hands at using DarwinPorts. And also because I 
> was very interested by Piet van Oostrum's recent messages about the 
> possibilities offered by CVS emacs, but not knowing how to compile (ie 
> not knowing how to invoke CVS, how to specify options at compilation 
> time, how to specify where to build the software, etc.), and having 
> had a quick look at the DarwinPorts port file, I thought DarwinPorts 
> would do exactly that for me, and provide me with the CVS emacs Piet 
> was referring to.
>
> As to why DarwinPorts, given there are so many Carbon or Cocoa emacs 
> builds available on the web (4? 5? 6? what a mess!), and not knowing 
> which one should be more complete or convenient or reliable than the 
> others, and not being competent enough to figure out by myself, I had 
> decided to just stick with DarwinPorts.
>
> Regarding compilation, I think emacs with the Carbon option has no 
> dependency at all (no X11 or GTK or graphic library), it seems the 
> unreasonable compilation time is caused by the creation of the Carbon 
> interface. It may also be that since I had installed several different 
> emacs builds on my Mac, to have a look at them, then the compiler is 
> now seeing them and having a hard time resolving redundancies.
>
> Well, I think I'll just let the compilation proceed for a couple more 
> hours, and then, if it's still going on, just kill the job, erase 
> DarwinPorts from my disk completely and stay happy with Enrico's ECE 
> for experimentation purposes (and think about another Archive & 
> Install of OS X when time allows, to clean my possibly corrupted setup).
>
> Bruno Voisin
>
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