Can't launch carbon XEmacs
Can't launch carbon XEmacs
- Subject: Can't launch carbon XEmacs
- From: Skip Montanaro <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 17:22:18 -0600
I'm not sure this is the right place to post this question. There are so
many lists hosted at apple.com and I'm not really sure what the heck's
wrong. (It appears to be LaunchServices-related, but I can't tell what
group has LS in its domain.) If there's a better list for this question,
let me know.
Also, nearly all of what I'm going to recount here is also present in this
thread on comp.emacs.xemacs:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.emacs.xemacs/browse_frm/thread/e5108997d52852a
Andrew Choi recently released a patch for XEmacs that allows it to build
using Carbon on Panther. I downloaded it and the XEmacs 21.5.18, followed
the directions to patch the distro and built. The patch applied cleanly.
The build went fine (I've built regular XEmacs successfully dozens of times
over the years). Everything went fine until I tried to launch the resulting
XEmacs.app file. Double-clicking the icon yields
You cannot open the application "XEmacs" because it may be
damaged or incomplete.
Launching it using open yields:
2005-03-08 19:22:33.228 open[3925] LSOpenFromURLSpec() returned -10827 for application (null) path /Users/skip/src/xemacs-21.5.18 /carbon/XEmacs.app.
2005-03-08 19:22:33.230 open[3925] Couldn't open file: /Users/skip/src/xemacs-21.5.18 /carbon/XEmacs.app
Thinking maybe there was something fishy about the recent upgrade from
Jaguar to Panther on my laptop, I also tried the build on my G5, which has
always run Panther. Same result. Both machines are up-to-date and have the
November 2004 gcc updater applied (the builds failed to run before I
installed it as well).
I can run the XEmacs.app/Contents/MacOS/XEmacs binary from the shell, but
that leads to secondary missing environment sorts of problems.
I've checked, double-checked and fiddled (just in case) the permissions,
made sure otool -L was happy with the executable, checked the PkgInfo and
Info.plist files and tried running open under control of ktrace to see if
anything obvious popped up. Nothing really did.
I'm at my wits' end with this. As far as I've been able to determine, I'm
the only person who has so far encountered this problem.
If you have any suggestions about what I might try to do to debug this
problem I am all ears.
Thanks for your time,
--
Skip Montanaro
email@hidden
http://www.mojam.com/
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