Emacs port does not upgrade

Dan Ports dports at macports.org
Wed May 16 13:54:41 PDT 2012


On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 01:09:21PM -0500, Watson Ladd wrote:
> When I update emacs, I get a binary named emacs-23.4 instead of an
> updated emacs. Is there a good reason for this behavior?
> I can think of several reasons why it is not good, and the port
> message displays no information about this, nor does the build
> message.

The emacs port installs the emacs binary as both /opt/local/bin/emacs
and /opt/local/bin/emacs-23.4, which are hard links to the same binary.

If that's not what you're seeing, let me know.

Dan

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