Emacs on Tiger
As I mentioned last night, I had to rebuild emacs for both MacOS 10.4.0 and 10.4.1. The second build failed, and then I screwed up my CVS (that is, my copy of the emacs source code) by trying to check out an older version. Let that be a lesson to you young’uns: Always Google first!
Google tells me I’m not alone in my emacs difficulties. I shouldn’t have been able to build Emacs for 10.4.0 and now my luck has run out. I could check out the source tree again and try a patch, but it will probably be easier to download one of the Tiger binaries that are floating around:
- Aquamacs claims to work with Tiger.
- John Wiseman’s build is hosted by a friend.
- This mystery build which you can also download from Apple is probably your best bet.
Of course, you could skip them all and use the built-in terminal emacs, but I prefer the GUI.
[Update] I should have downloaded Aquamacs, because the other two didn’t work. I’m trying some hacks now, but they’re not going well.
Maybe the opendarwin port would work. I also found a couple of links to 10.4.1 binaries: