Compiling Emacs on Snow Leopard
Has anyone successfully compiled the latest CVS Emacs on Snow Leopard? If so, can you provide instructions? I used Leopard on Leopard and it worked fine:
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org:/sources/emacs co emacs
cd emacs
./configure --enable-carbon-app --with-ns --with-jpeg=no --with-gif=no \
--with-tiff=no
make bootstrap
make
sudo make install
sudo cp -r nextstep/Emacs.app /Applications/Emacs.app
but that doesn't work anymore on Snow Leopard.
To answer my question, there are built-in Emacs binaries that work on Snow Leopard such as http://emacsformacosx.com/
Patches that are available in various places most often work for specific CVS revisions most of the time.
In the absence of any other information, check out this thread for details on Emacs / Snow Leopard problems and their final resolution.
You can also take a look at Aquamacs , which is currently in beta for the latest Emacs and offers slightly better OS X integration than the default build.
You need to add one parameter in the configuration step:
./configure --with-ns CC='gcc -arch i386' --with-jpeg=no --with-gif=no --with-tiff=no
emacs is not yet released for 64-bit Mac architecture
- enable-carbon-app is also not needed now