Re: Emacs 23.1 on Mac OS X 10.6.1 (Snow Leopard) - build failed

[David Reitter]

On Nov 8, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Florent Georges wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  I've just bought a new MacBook Pro.  I've installed Apple's
> Xcode (version "Xcode 3.2.1 for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard",
> filename "xcode321_10m2003_developerdvd.dmg".)  Then I tried to
> build GNU Emacs 23.1 (from release file "emacs-23.1.tar.bz2".)

Don't use the release - I don't think it builds.
Check out the head/master branch via CVS or the git mirror, then build  
with

CC='gcc -arch i386' ./configure --with-ns

(Not sure if the above CC workaround is still needed at this point.   
OS X 10.6 will build with 64bit by default, which was the problem  
there - a patch is either in the works or has been checked in recently  
so you can build a 64bit variant.  Somebody told me it's snappier.)

Hope that helps.

- David