Re: trouble installing emacs24

Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 6/23/2014 12:15 AM, Jesse Alama wrote:
> I see that Emacs 24 was recently made available as a Fink package
> (thanks!).  I had some trouble installing on my 10.9.2 MacBook Pro:
> after building, I see this:
>
> [...]
> In fink-run-directories:
> /sw/share/emacs24/site-lisp/fink-startup.el:129:25:Warning: `mapcar' called
>      for effect; use `mapc' or `dolist' instead
> Wrote /sw/share/emacs24/site-lisp/fink-startup.elc
> basename: extra operand '/sw/share/info/emacs-24/autotype.info.gz'
> Try 'basename --help' for more information.
> chown: invalid user: 'games'
> /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing emacs24 (--install):
>   subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Emacs depends on the pkg 'passwd-games' so that user should normally be 
set up on the system.  Try 'fink reinstall passwd-games' and select yes 
when asked to install the user.

Hanspeter


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