Re: installation of emacs26 fails

Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
Organization Snaggled Works
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2/20/21 4:18 PM, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> 
>> On 2/20/21 4:14 AM, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> 
>> You don't need to preface the fink command with 'sudo'. Fink will do
>> that itself if it needs to.
> 
> Yeah, just habit of decades of using  of linux/unix
> 
>> That's just diagnostics on the system (but still useful). Can you look
>> earlier in the build log to find the actual error? Looking for the
>> string "error: " is usually a safe bet. Find that and the compiler
>> command that failed (usually begins with either 'gcc' or 'clang').
> 
> Sure, but forgive me my ignorance where are these log files placed in fink?

The build log is earlier in the terminal output where the diagnostic 
output you previously pasted was. Fink by default doesn't save the build 
logs to a file, but if you run it with the '-l' flag, it'll save the 
build log to a file in /tmp.

fink -l install emacs26

Hanspeter



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