Having installed Emacs.app (because that promises anti-aliased fonts, and it works nicely on my Mac) from ports, with a quick cd /usr/ports/editors/emacs.app; sudo make install clean I couldn't figure out how to start it, or find documentation on how to start it. The closest that I got (at least it didn't complain about being unable to find shared libraries) was the command: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries /usr/local/GNUstep/System/Applications/Emacs.app/Emacs which produced the following messages: 2006-12-05 17:38:20.951 Emacs[72983] Warning - mouse/pointer seems to have more than 5 buttons - just using one to five Fatal error (11) If I run that with --help, I get a help message and a core dump. The back-trace doesn't seem terribly helpful, but the top of it says: #0 0x000000000058ba9a in Fcons (car=0, cdr=0) at alloc.c:2764 2764 alloc.c: No such file or directory. in alloc.c [New LWP 100192] (gdb) where #0 0x000000000058ba9a in Fcons (car=0, cdr=0) at alloc.c:2764 #1 0x0000000000591963 in wrong_type_argument (predicate=0, value=0) at data.c:124 #2 0x00000000005d2fda in check_obarray (obarray=0) at lread.c:3358 #3 0x00000000005d304b in intern (str=0x669779 "emacs-version") at lread.c:3376 #4 0x000000000050d00b in bug_reporting_address () at emacs.c:807 #5 0x000000000050d738 in gnustep_base_user_main (argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffe698) at emacs.c:1184 #6 0x000000000045064e in _start () #7 0x00000008007a1000 in ?? () #8 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #9 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #10 0x0000000000000002 in ?? () etc Fix: Not sure how to fix. Happy to help debug. My work-around is going to be changing back to regular GNU emacs... How-To-Repeat: Build and run as above.
State Changed From-To: open->feedback Awaiting maintainers feedback
To start GNUstep software do this: source (source or . for bash/zsh) GNUstep.sh (should be in /usr/local/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh). Consult your shell manual if you have another shell, and you might need the .csh script for extraordinary exotic shells. After that, try open Emacs openapp Emacs yours, Gürkan
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->dinoex I will take care of it.
State Changed From-To: feedback->closed - no feeback. startup for apllications is described in pkg-message of devel/gnustep