Emacs fails to install

[brodo]

brew install -v --cocoa output:
https://gist.github.com/868114

I've got XCode 4 installed and symlinked /usr/bin/cc to /usr/bin/gcc.

[adamv]

CC: /usr/bin/cc
CXX: /usr/bin/c++ => /usr/bin/c++-4.2
LD: /usr/bin/cc

I'm only seeing c++ as a symlink here in your --config.

[brodo]

I deleted /usr/bin/cc and added a new symlink, still the same error:
https://gist.github.com/868404

[waltersuen]

Specifying "--use-gcc" doesn't make any difference.

[waltersuen]

Please vote it to the top of the issue list.

[MikeMcQuaid]

adamv, we should try and fix Xcode 4 issues from now on I think rather than getting people to change symlinks.

[adamv]

Sure; there's are two existing issues one with a general Xcode 4 fix and one with Emacs specific ones; someone on 4 should review those changes and commit them.

[MikeMcQuaid]

Cool. Can you link them here?

[brodo]

Thanks for working on it so fast.

[adamv]

• https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/issue/4619
• https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/issue/4633

[kristianhellquist]

Any workaround? Or am I missing something?

[djui]

Having the same problem. Gist here: https://gist.github.com/919126

[dustinchilson]

I am also having this problem with Xcode 4. Gist: https://gist.github.com/921983

[rgm]

I just had success yesterday with brew install --HEAD --use-git-head emacs with on a machine that only had Xcode 4.0.1 installed, ie. no gcc 4.0.x present.

[dustinchilson]

@rgm, thanks, but that still fails with --cocoa - https://gist.github.com/922020 and without https://gist.github.com/922035

[dustinchilson]

Using the bazaar repo HEAD worked. brew install emacs --HEAD --cocoa

[shosti]

Same problem: https://gist.github.com/923751 (--HEAD --cocoa worked, but not 23.3)

[kristianhellquist]

 brew install emacs --HEAD --cocoa 

Worked for me, thanks @dustinchilson

[mckoss]

brew install bazaar
brew install emacs --HEAD --cocoa

Cloning the emacs trunk has taken over 30 minutes, so far .. and still not done. Is this really the best way to get emacs 23?

[kristianhellquist]

@mckoss --HEAD parameter will install emacs 24

[mckoss]

@meeiw - Quite right. thanks.

After all this - still seems like emacs is not installed property. Running

$ emacs
Warning: arch-dependent data dir (/private/tmp/homebrew-emacs-HEAD-TIw4/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS//libexec/emacs/24.0.50/i386-apple-darwin10.7.0/) does not exist.

And keys typed go into my terminal window - not the new window opened by emacs.

This is probably no longer a brew issue - but I would not that emacs is behaving differently from the brew install than the natively installed emacs in OSX.

[lancepantz]

brew install bazaar
brew install emacs --HEAD --cocoa

I was experiencing the same issue, and this fixed it. thanks

[mbauman]

This was fixed in the emacs source, identified as bug 8223. Applying the diff from the commit that resolves the issue allows emacs to be built by homebrew.

I put the diff into a gist: https://gist.github.com/959440

[khera]

Same issue for me. https://gist.github.com/978626

[khera]

The patched emacs.rb from nominolo above fixed the problem, and emacs builds and runs fine now.

[tjittedevries]

For me the patched emacs.rb from nominoloa above also fixed the problem.
Isn't it possible to include this patch in de default formula somehow?

[nominolo]

There is a pending pull request, but I don't know what to do to get it in.

[adamv]

Pushed a fix for compilation with Xcode 4.