Emacs port does not upgrade

Watson Ladd watsonbladd at gmail.com
Wed May 16 14:12:13 PDT 2012


Apparently this may have been due to some caching... I now get the
expected behavior.

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Dan Ports <dports at macports.org> wrote:
> 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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