Re: Emacs Anyone?

[Steven Nunez]

That is unfortunate. It looks a lot better when developers eat their own dog food. A few of questions for the team then, if you don't mind:

• What are GNUStep developers using? Emacs compiled for Gnome?
• Did it ever work well? Seems all the posts I can find out the topic said something wasn't quite right, but that's to be expected since they would not be posting otherwise.
  
• Does anyone know how broken it is? I.e. What would it take to get things working?

I may be interested in sponsoring a maintainer, provided it is not a huge expense.

Regards,

    - Steve

On Thursday, March 2, 2017 1:50 AM, Germán Arias <germanandre@gmx.es> wrote:

Hi Steven, unfortunately the Emacs with GNUstep is unmaintained. I remember the problem you mention, I had to copy the GNUstep headers to a place where the configure script can found it. But even if it builds you will face many problems. 

Regards.

Germán

El mar, 28-02-2017 a las 11:02 +0000, Steven Nunez escribió:

Greetings all,

Is anyone out there using emacs 25 (or any other version) with GNUStep? I'm running into many of the same problems described in this thread:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-07/msg00070.html

but none of the solutions there work for me. This might be because I'm running on FreeBSD, but I would not have thought that to make a huge difference. I've also seen it mentioned that "Emacs can be built and run under GNUstep, but there are still issues to be addressed. Interested developers should contact the emacs-devel mailing list." (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/GNUstep-Support.html#GNUstep-Support) This seems to be confirmed in several other posts related to the topic that I came across whilst searching (crashes, font problems, etc.)

Specifically, I can't get passed:

...

checking AppKit/AppKit.h usability... no

checking AppKit/AppKit.h presence... no

configure: error: The include files (AppKit/AppKit.h etc) that are required for a Nextstep build are missing or cannot be compiled.

...

The config line for FreeBSD 11 (zsh), with GNUStep installed from packages:

env CFLAGS=-DGNUSTEP ./configure --with-ns --with-gnustep-conf=/usr/local/GNUstep.conf

Given all the difficulty that seems to surround this, I thought I would confirm that it will actually work before banging my head on this one too much longer.

Anyone got it working?

Regards,

    - Steve

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