Re: MacOS X Emacs

[Andrew Choi]

> I just tried to build Emacs under Darwin with $srcdir != $builddir
> and had some problems with ${emacsapp}.  Is the following patch
> correct?  Then I tried to run the emacs in the build directory, but
> I got an abort in macterm, because GetNewCWindow returned 0.  Any
> idea?  (emacs -nw works fine.)
> 
> Andreas.
> 
> 2002-06-18  Andreas Schwab  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * Makefile.in (${emacsapp}Contents/MacOS/Emacs): Support building
>       outside source directory.
>       (${emacsapp}Contents/Resources/Emacs.rsrc): Likewise.
>
> [...]

Hi Andreas,

The entire directory under `mac/Emacs.app/' must remain intact for
Emacs to run in GUI mode under Mac OS X.  Otherwise Emacs won't be
able to find the resources it requires to run.  That's probably what
happened.

Also, currently it can only be started from the Finder (see
mac/INSTALL).  You can copy Emacs.app to another location (which shows
up simply as the application `Emacs' in the Finder), but you must copy
the whole thing (use drag-and-drop in the Finder or `cp -r').

Andrew.