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Joe Izen wrote:
|> Can you please post the output of "fink --version"?  You may have
|> tried a selfupdate from a Leopard-noncompliant Fink.
|
| [fiddle:~] joe% fink --version
| Package manager version: 0.27.10
| Distribution version: 0.8.1.cvs i386
|
That's fine.
|> Your problem is that emacs21 doesn't even exist on Leopard
|> (presumably because it doesn't work):
|>
|> http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/emacs21
|>
|> and you shouldn't have been able to install it at all.
|>
|> Unfortunately, the emacsen-common package relies on the various
|> emacs* binaries to be able to run to do its work.  This is fine for
|> a primarily-tested-binary situation like Debian, from where we
|> derived the package, but in handling packages built from source it
|> can be a bit fragile.
|>
|> If you don't want to reinstall Fink, then try doing a "fink remove
|> emacs21" and see what complaint you get from emacsen-common.  You'll
|> then want to hack the relevant line (e.g. from emacs-common-remove)
|> not to run the emacs command, so you can remove emacs21.
|
| Seems to run without hacks????
|
|>   Then do another "fink remove emacs21" and hopefully  it will be
|> gone.   Lastly, do a "fink reinstall emacsen-common" to restore the
|> file you edited.
|
|
| Thanks for the suggestions. With emacs21 out of the way, I seem to be
| picking up the version that comes with Darwin that runs OK, though I
| don't seem to be able to get to run in a point-and-click X-window :-(
|
| [fiddle:~] joe% which emacs
| /usr/bin/emacs
|
| [fiddle:~] joe% emacs -version
| GNU Emacs 22.1.1
| Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
| GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
| You may redistribute copies of Emacs
| under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
| For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
It may not be built with X support.  Our emacs22 packages work OK under 
Leopard--I've been using emacs22-gtk.
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