Re: config error

[John F. Whitehead]

On Sep 25, 2004, at 1:43 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:
> > configure:1428: found /usr/bin/emacs
>
> Are you sure this is your Emacs 21.3.50.1? Usually, it is installed at
> /usr/local/bin.

yes, it is a link to the executable.

Aha!  After writing a description of how I couldn't figure things out,  
I just realized that the above is NOT a link -- it is a script:

#!/bin/sh
/usr/libexec/emacs/21.3.50/powerpc-apple-darwin6.2/Emacs.app/Contents/ 
MacOS/Emacs $@

and that is what is causing the problems. this redirection is screwing  
things up (it never did for other command line arguments -- it must not  
be letting the quote marks go through escaped).

i changed it from a shell script to a symlink and configure worked fine.

thanks!

- jfw