Re: emacs26-app fails to install

I can work on this.

As far as I can tell, the install locations for the various files are 
ok: only Emacs itself now belongs inside the Emacs26.app bundle. So 
update-alternatives needs to be corrected to point to the real location 
of the files in %p/bin and so on.

Or do those files need to also be moved inside the Emacs.app bundle the 
way they are in emacs23-app?

Hanspeter

On 2/8/23 6:52 PM, Tomoaki Okayama wrote:
> 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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>>
>>
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