I have tried unsuccessfully several times on two different Macs to build a
working version of Andrew Choi's Carbon XEmacs. The tar extract, patch
application and build seem to all go without a hitch, yet the darn thing
won't run. I get this from the open(1) command:
2005-03-09 23:21:02.458 open[25662] LSOpenFromURLSpec() returned -10827
for application (null) path
/Users/skip/src/xemacs-21.5.18/carbon/XEmacs.app.
2005-03-09 23:21:02.459 open[25662] Couldn't open file:
/Users/skip/src/xemacs-21.5.18/carbon/XEmacs.app
I tried running "ktrace open XEmacs.app" but can't really tell much from
the
output. Looking back from the spot where the error message is written I see
a bunch of NAMI stuff for files in /.vol and a number of NAMIs for the
XEmacs.app file itself along with some getattrlist, stat and lstat calls,
all of which succeed. There are a number of kdebug_trace calls sprinkled
throughout the dump, all of which appear to fail (errno 22 invalid
argument). I suspect that's something related to the ktrace run itself.
The last call that fails other than kdebug stuff is an attempted open of the
nonexistent file
/Library/Managed Preferences/skip/com.apple.applicationaccess.plist
I posted a note to comp.emacs.xemacs to which Andrew replied a couple
times. The thread is here:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.emacs.xemacs/browse_thread/threa...
It seems I've exhausted his ideas about what the cause of the problem might
be. At this point I would be happy if someone could tar up a working
XEmacs.app directory and stick it on a website somewhere so I can compare it
with what I've created (or see if I can even run it). I'm also open to
other debugging suggestions.
Thanks,
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Skip Montanaro
skip(a)mojam.com
http://www.mojam.com/