Re: Using Apple's standard emacs with X11?
Re: Using Apple's standard emacs with X11?
- Subject: Re: Using Apple's standard emacs with X11?
- From: "M. Stanley Bubien" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 15:51:48 -0700
> >> There is nothing wrong with the Apple emacs build:
>>> Since the default installation of OS X is *without* X11 environment,
>>> Apple provided emacs built with no X11 support. You get the same
>>> result with *any* emacs if on the command line you issue: 'emacs >> -nw'.
>>> The option -nw is hard-wired on OS X in that it cannot assume X11
>>> environment is present. If you compile fink emacs with no x11 you get
> >> the same result as with Apple provided one: only terminal run.
To expand on this a bit...
If Apple provided X11 support in emacs, it would also have needed to
provide the requisite X11 shared libraries. If those libraries were
missing, emacs would exit (badly!) no matter what mode you started in.
Here's what happens when I remove a shared library from my fink install
and do a simple ls (fink installed ls is my default).
lysithea[2]% ls
dyld: ls can't open library: /sw/lib/libintl.1.dylib (No such file or
directory, errno = 2)
Trace/BPT trap
Emacs would bomb similarly without X11 libs.
Also, Apple did not originally support X11 in OSX... not
even at Jaguar's initial release (I don't remember exact dates
but I'm pretty sure about that). So they really had no reason
to provide X11 support for anything, especially when it would
have probably been a headache... and the easy solution in
emacs' case is to just compile without X11 anyway!!
-Mark
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