Re: Emacs 22 Carbon+AppKit port and Emacs 23 Mac port

[CHENG Gao]

*On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:56:37 +0900
* Also sprach YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <address@hidden>:

>>>>>> On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:47:49 +0800, CHENG Gao <address@hidden> said:
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>> YAMAMOTO-san, I found emacs-23.1-mac-1.92.tar.gz file is not there.
>
> Sorry for inconvenience.  I temporarily withdrew the file because I
> found a minor mistake before no one had downloaded it.  It is
> available now.

Yes I got it later. Thanks!

>> Since Snow Leopard is out of cage, I am wondering if YAMAMOTO-san
>> intend to add mac port into Emacs trunk. I personally hope this can
>> happen.  With mac port added, the greatest befinet is Emacs can work
>> on all MacOSX versions. And if I understand correctly, it's not
>> possible for Cocoa port to achieve this easily.
>
> At least, I'd like to make the Mac port separate for now: it's still
> at the experimental/hackers-only stage.  I hope I can get rid of that
> label shortly after the 23.2 release.

>> 1 Emacs (22, 23 and TRUNK?) works on all MacOSX versions.
>> User can choose to build mac port or Cocoa port.
>> Take 23 for example (I dont use 22 so I can not say for it):
>> User can build mac/Cocoa port on 10.3-10.5
>> User can build mac port on 10.6
>
> The Mac port can be built on Mac OS X 10.2 - 10.6.  As far as I know,
> the NS port can be built on Mac OS X 10.4 - 10.6: there is a problem
> with a compilation on 10.3 (*1), and a 32-bit binary can be made on
> 10.6 (*2) with a small patch (23.1) or as it is (CVS trunk).
>
> *1: http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3917
> *2: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-08/msg01401.html

Thanks for the info.
I got TRUNK built successfully in 32 bit.
I dont know when, but I have dbus installed with Macports (maybe as
dependency for some app). I found I have to disable dbus otherwise Emacs
wont build.

To build TRUNK with ns port:

$CC='gcc -arch i386' ./configure --with-ns --disable-ns-self-contained
--without-dbus
$make bootstrap

I think it's a good candidate to add to etc/PROBLEMS.

I read the first bug link about problem building on 10.3. Searching
Xcode docs shows that these methods and constants are available on 10.4
and later (colorAtX:y, NSFontTraitsAttribute, NSFontWeightTrait etc.)
So I think Cocoa port can not build on 10.3. README file under nextstep/
should be revised to reflect this. 


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>                                    YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
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