Re: emacs26-app fails to install

Sort of interested in this.  I am currently trying to update emacs to 28.  I have most of it functional for -nox split but stuck on updating glib2.  I was going to think about the .app version and contact the maintainer as a next step.  It seemed easier to update to 28 than to get 26 working on arm64.

-Scott


> On Feb 8, 2023, at 20:56, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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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