Re: compiling the beta on an iMac

Having been away a while, I'm assured I can share my problems with trying to build the latest xemacs beta here. I used to do this sort of thing all the time, but it's been at least five or six years, and although I have a good software background, I'm not primarily a programmer. (About 20 years of system testing an another five of Web application development using LAMP in my background.) Also, version 21.4 patch 22 is working fine for my purposes. That said: Help! My system is a three-week-old 27-inch iMac with quad core Intel processor ＠ 3.2 GHz and other goodies irrelevant to this discussion. I'm told there are other Mac users among us who are using the beta and that it's working superbly well for them. So then , I unwound the source, did the usual sequence of stuff, and got an error. What follows is the edited shell buffer output, with most irrelevant stuff deleted. -------------------- BEGINNING OF SHELL GLOP -------------------- [ Snip ] ----------------------- END OF SHELL GLOP ----------------------- Apparently I'm missing mule, which I'd assumed was part of the distribution. As I recall, that has to do with multi-language support, unicode, and all that sort of thing, right? I know it's been around for a long time, but I've never paid much attention to it. I'm pretty sure I *do* have it in my 21.4.22 installation, which I installed from macports (sudo port install xemacs). Soooo ... o What next? Gotta get mule in there, I guess. Where do I get it, and where in the source hierarchy does it fall? I don't know that no mule is the only problem.

o Supplementary question: I know it's not necessary for compiling xemacs, but where exactly do the packages go, i.e., what directory? (Assuming I give ./configure no options ... if that's even relevant.)

o The sumo package that I downloaded is dated July 27, 2010. I'm guessing that since most package developers have abandoned working on packages, that this date is probably right. Is it? o Another supplementary question: is it possible to entirely root hyperbole out of xemacs? I used to use it a lot, finally came to hate it, but found it's so thoroughly ingrained, at least in 21.4.22, that my efforts to get rid of it have invariably led to problems. So it remains as a kind of an albatross. 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