Re: emacs26-app fails to install

Hi,

I understood, actually in my environment as well
the destination of binaries etc. is different from
emacs23-app.

Unfortunately I don't have time currently to remedy
this issue. Could anybody help please?

Tomoaki Okayama




2023年2月8日(水) 20:10 Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]>:

> On 1/27/23 2:42 AM, Sean Case wrote:
> > Sorry for the delay in getting back to this.
> >
> >> On 19 Jan 2023, at 22:35, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Sounds like the build system failed to detect the build wanted a .app
> bundle and defaulted to the unixy layout.
> >
> > I should perhaps clarify: it _is_ building an app bundle, and putting
> the Emacs executable in it. What is missing are the other executables (like
> ctags) and the man pages. These appear to be in /opt/sw/bin and
> /opt/sw/share/man in the package.
>
> I had only tried to build before and not actually tried to install.
> Looking at my deb, the only things installed in Emacs.app are these:
>
> > ./Applications
> > ./Applications/Emacs.app
> > ./Applications/Emacs.app/Contents
> > ./Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS
> > ./Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs
> > ./Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources
> > ./Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj
> >
> ./Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings
> > ./Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/document.icns
> > ./Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/Credits.html
> > ./Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/Emacs.icns
> > ./Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Info.plist
> > ./Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/PkgInfo
>
> man pages and other binaries are in /sw/{bin,share} like in your setup.
>
> > $ file /sw/share/man/man1/emacs.1* /sw/etc/alternatives/emacs.1*
> /sw/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/man/man1/emacs.1
> > /sw/share/man/man1/emacs.1:                                     broken
> symbolic link to /sw/etc/alternatives/emacs.1
> > /sw/share/man/man1/emacs.1.gz:                                  gzip
> compressed data, max compression, from Unix
> > /sw/etc/alternatives/emacs.1:                                   broken
> symbolic link to
> /sw/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/man/man1/emacs.1
> > /sw/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/man/man1/emacs.1: cannot
> open `/sw/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/man/man1/emacs.1' (No
> such file or directory)
>
> Apparently, this wasn't fatal with dpkg-1.10, but is fatal with
> update-alternatives from dpkg-1.16.
>
> Looking at the history of emacs26-app, it looks like the .info was maybe
> copied from emacs23-app.info, but no one noticed that many of the
> executables that used to be inside the .app bundle are now outside.
>
> Hanspeter
>
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