install emacs-app failed on Tiger, ppc

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On Jan 28, 2009, at 1:56 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Jan 28, 2009, at 09:33, Joe Davison wrote:
>
>> I'm running 10.4.11 on a PowerPC G4 (Quicksilver)
>>
>> Today I tried  sudo port -v install emacs-app and got a, to me,  
>> bizarre failure.     I captured both the output from port -v and  
>> the config.log.   Examining the latter shows that, for some reason  
>> when it checked the executable generated by gcc4 it was for intel,  
>> not ppc -- possibly an error in flags passed to it?
>
> Confirmed on my 10.4 Power Mac. I filed a ticket for you:
>
> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/18253

Thanks for noting the bug ... that compile script in the emacs-app  
port has been carried around for a while. At one point I thought about  
trying to pull everything out and reconstructing the options on a  
standard configure line, and then we could more easily control the  
build options.

However, given that emacs-app development has now been folded into the  
official emacs development, you might want to check the emacs-app- 
devel port instead. It's a bit more bleeding edge, but it's a lot  
easier to control settings since it relies on the configuration  
options rather than a hard-coded script.

Chris