Re: Trouble building against Emacs23 OSX

[David Reitter]

On Dec 13, 2009, at 6:06 PM, defn wrote:

> I built emacs23 from source on OSX and placed Emacs.app into my 
> /Applications/ directory. Everything works great, except for trying to build 
> things against it. w3m apparently cannot be built against emacs22 and work in 
> emacs23. Since the most current version of emacs in /usr/bin is emacs22, I 
> mv'd it and ln'd /usr/bin/emacs to /Applications/Contents/MacOS/Emacs. Now, 
> when running configure for w3m it sees that I'm using emacs23, but it cannot 
> find simple.el, simple.elc, etc.:

> Warning: Could not find simple.el nor simple.elc
> Cannot open load file: cl
> configure: error: Process couldn't proceed.  See the above messages.

Could you try to set the appropriate environment variable rather than creating 
a symlink into the application bundle?

Usually, it is something like

export EMACS=/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs