On 20 Sep 2013, at 08:05, Georg Bauhaus <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Am 20.09.2013 um 08:32 schrieb Simon Wright:
> 
>> On 20 Sep 2013, at 02:32, Stephen Leake <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Simon Wright <[email protected]> writes:
>>>> 
>>>> The stumbling block was that build/wisi/Makefile does the byte
>>>> compilation using plain "emacs" which, on Mac OS X, opens the
>>>> command-line version which is 22.1.1 :-)
>>> 
>>> Can't you set PATH?
>> 
>> I get a dialog box "This application will not run on your computer. Sorry!"; 
>> will have to leave this for later!
>> 
> 
> This looks like a message from that Emacs start script (in Ruby)
> which is part of the Pure Emacs for Mac made by David Caldwell.
> FTR, he has just now added a fix, which may help in this case,
> too, announced for a nightly build, probably using the [cmdname,
> argv0], arg1, ... form of exec.
> (The occasion for the change is a bug in the script triggered
> by spaces in the path to the executable and an empty ARGV.)
> 
> One of his hints was to try passing some option, then ARGV is
> not the empty list. The above effect is caused by how
> Ruby's exec interacts with the shell (if ARGV is []).
> 
> I'll see if my own, dumb workaround will do,
> -  exec versions[highest_compatible_version], *ARGV
> +  executable = versions[highest_compatible_version], *ARGV
> +  exec %("#{executable}")

My workround is to invoke Emacs rather than emacs. The joys of HFS ...


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