emacs install breaking

[Elias Pipping]

sudo port -f activate emacs should solve the problem.


Regards,

Elias Pipping


On Feb 27, 2007, at 6:29 AM, Rob MacLeod wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to get emacs working from MacPorts and my first try  
> would not launch its own X-window but ran in the xterm where I  
> launched it.  It also reported a warning that the directory
>
> 	/opt/local/share/emacs/21.4/leim
>
> was missing, which it was when I went looking.  I am not sure what  
> this directory does or whether its absence explains why emacs was  
> lamed.
>
> I am now trying to do a fresh install of emacs but running into  
> problems.  I keep getting this error during installation:
>
> --->  Activating emacs 21.4a_1+darwin_8
> Error: Target com.apple.activate returned: File exists
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
>
> I have tried uninstalling emacs using
>
> 	sudo port uninstall emacs
> 	
> and then
>
> 	sudo port clean --all emacs
>
> and still I get this same error.
>
> Does anyone have any guesses about what might be going wrong.
>
> As background, I have used fink since the beginning of OSX time,  
> used emacs on Unix for many more years before that.  I am trying to  
> move from Fink to Macports but so far, the experience is mixed.  I  
> left Fink because it was falling behind on new versions.  I hope  
> MacPorts will work for me...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob
>
>
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