Re: gnuplot and emacs in latest fink on MacOS 10.15.4

Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
Organization Snaggled Works
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On 4/16/20 4:31 PM, Duncan wrote:
> Hi, I am reporting issues in (re)nstalling fink on MacOS 10.15.4
> and trying to install gnuplot and emacs


> "fink install gnuplot" failed because it has a hidden (undocumented) requirement for emacs to produced texinfo
> information, and command-line  emacs was removed by apple in 10.15:  (one more reason for fink)
> 
> 
>> make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-info-am'.
>> Making install-info in docs
>> if test "no" != no; then \
>> 	   test ".." = ".." || cp ./gnuplot.doc . ; \
>> 	   no -batch -q --no-site-file -l doc2texi.el -f d2t-doc-to-texi ; \
>> 	   test ".." = ".." || rm -f ./gnuplot.doc ; \
>> 	else \
>> 	   echo "No emacs found - cannot create texinfo file" ; \
>> 	fi
>> No emacs found - cannot create texinfo file
>> makeinfo -I. gnuplot.texi --no-split --output=gnuplot.info
>> could not open gnuplot.texi: No such file or directory
>> make[1]: *** [gnuplot.info] Error 1
>> make: *** [install-info-recursive] Error 1
>> ### execution of /tmp/fink.od6c3 failed, exit code 2
>> ### execution of /tmp/fink.__iJU failed, exit code 2

Gnuplot and the missing emacs from 10.15.4 are tracked here:
https://github.com/fink/fink-distributions/issues/619

Hanspeter


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