I see that Emacs 24 was recently made available as a Fink package (thanks!). I had some trouble installing on my 10.9.2 MacBook Pro: after building, I see this:
[...] Selecting previously deselected package emacs24. (Reading database ... 213203 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking emacs24 (from .../emacs24_24.3-3_darwin-x86_64.deb) ... Setting up emacs24 (24.3-3) ... emacs-install emacs24 defined(@array) is deprecated at /sw/lib/emacsen-common/generate-install-list line 24. (Maybe you should just omit the defined()?) install/ledger-el: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs24 install/ledger-el: Byte-compiling for emacs24...done. install/ledger-el: Compilation log saved in /sw/share/doc/ledger-el/CompilationLog-emacs24.gz. emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs24 Loading /sw/etc/emacs/site-start.d/00fink-vars.el (source)... Loading /sw/etc/emacs/site-start.d/50ledger.el (source)... Wrote /tmp/emacsen-common-testfile.elc emacsen-common: byte-compiling for emacs24 Loading /sw/etc/emacs24/site-start.d/00fink-vars.el (source)... Loading /sw/etc/emacs/site-start.d/50ledger.el (source)... In fink-file->string: /sw/etc/emacs24/site-start.d/00fink-vars.el:32:23:Warning: Use `with-current-buffer' rather than save-excursion+set-buffer Wrote /sw/etc/emacs24/site-start.d/00fink-vars.elc In fink-run-directories: /sw/share/emacs24/site-lisp/fink-startup.el:129:25:Warning: `mapcar' called for effect; use `mapc' or `dolist' instead Wrote /sw/share/emacs24/site-lisp/fink-startup.elc basename: extra operand '/sw/share/info/emacs-24/autotype.info.gz' Try 'basename --help' for more information. chown: invalid user: 'games' /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing emacs24 (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 [...] Jesse ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel