Re: compiling the beta on an iMac

Aha! Okay. That allowed me to get all the way to the end and produces a runnable xemacs. I did make install under sudo, and it dropped stuff in /usr/local/lib and in /usr/local/share, but nothing I recognize as a usable binary. There is one in the src directory, though. The one major headache that's always bothered me with xemacs is where all the directories of stuff belong. When I run the xemacs in this src directory, naturally it finds errors in my ~/.xemacs/init.el, but that's got to be because it doesn't know where to find the packages. Ummm. I've never heard of it running native on the Mac, and have always assumed that X11 is required. I do have that. Since I first started using Macs as a base of operations things have shifted around with X11, and when I was configuring my iMac for use, I was told that this is now under the auspicies of a organization (?) called XQuartz. In any case, it was not difficult to install this, and in fact X11 now runs much better than it ever did before. Isn't X11 what the "X" in XEmacs is all about? Emacs that runs under X11 in order to get graphics support? I always thought so. Well, at least I got it to compile. Sometime RSN I'll have to tread my way through the splatter that got left behind to see if I can get it to actually work for me. My days of testing stuff are long behind me. I've become the sort of guy who just wants stuff on my own workhorse system to just work right, with minimum hassles. Thanks. -- Lynn David Newton Columbus, Ohio neologisticsediting.com lynndavidnewton.com _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta