macOS emacs in leopard

[waterskier2007]

I have Leopard installed, and I have developer tools version 3.0, from the apple developer website. I am trying to run emacs to edit a file (sawTooth.cpp) i was able to do this in tiger with xcode tools 2.4, and now it doesnt work. i know that sawtooth is a good file but here is the error i get

baits-209-93:engin101 brendankirchner$ emacs sawTooth.cpp
Fatal malloc_jumpstart() error


can anyone identify thi and tell me what i am doing wrong

thanks

 

[TouchOfClass]

same problem here. wasup?

 

[waterskier2007]

pissin me off

its not that it doesnt recognize the command, its that it has some fatal malloc_jumpstart error

 

[TouchOfClass]

It got pointed out to me that my version of emacs is the Tiger version even though I upgraded my computer to Leopard. So I am going to try and resintall the BSD portion.

check your version with the command:

emacs --version

Tiger Version: Emacs 21.2.1
Leopard Version: Emacs 22.1.1

 

[ilog]

It got pointed out to me that my version of emacs is the Tiger version even though I upgraded my computer to Leopard. So I am going to try and resintall the BSD portion.

check your version with the command:

emacs --version

Tiger Version: Emacs 21.2.1
Leopard Version: Emacs 22.1.1

I just upgraded to Leopard and emacs didn't get upgraded. I still
have the 21.2.1 version. This sucks how many other programs are
left out like this. I got the free upgrade disk, is it possible to do a clean
install with that. If not how do I just reinstall the BSD portion?

 

[TouchOfClass]

I dunno trying to figure that out myself. I am also curious what other BSD tools didn't get upgraded. I really don't want to download the GNU emacs source and remake the program.

help me

 

[ilog]

I dunno trying to figure that out myself. I am also curious what other BSD tools didn't get upgraded. I really don't want to download the GNU emacs source and remake the program.

help me

I tried compiling the GNU emacs 22.1 source code but it doesn't compile.
I read on some other forum that it compiles fine on clean installs. Looks like Apple left some tiger bread crumbs with Leopard Upgrade.

Let me know if it compiles for you.

 

[Gelfin]

FWIW, this isn't a universal issue. My emacs version upgraded as expected. Have you ever built emacs for a previous OS version? Did you try 'which emacs' to make sure you're getting /usr/bin/emacs? Do you have more than one versioned subdirectory, perhaps, in /usr/share/emacs?

If none of the above gets you anywhere, make sure the new BSD package was even installed/updated during your upgrade. Apple has changed the receipt stuff from a bunch of bundles to a database, so your BSD.pkg receipt will still be for Tiger. To find the version of the currently installed BSD package, go to a command line and do this:

% [B]sqlite3 /Library/Receipts/db/a.receiptdb[/B]
SQLite version 3.4.0
Enter ".help" for instructions
sqlite> [B]select vers from pkgs where pkgid = 'com.apple.pkg.BSD';[/B]
10.5.0.1.1.1192168948
sqlite> [B].quit[/B]

The 10.5.0.1.1.1192168948 bit is what it ought to return. If you don't have the Leopard BSD package installed, you'll just return to the "sqlite>" prompt with no output at all.

If it wasn't installed, you can probably go back to the install DVD and find and run BSD.pkg directly.

 

[TouchOfClass]

From my computer root account:

sh-3.2# sqlite3 /Library/Receipts/db/a.receiptdb
SQLite version 3.4.0
Enter ".help" for instructions
sqlite> select vers from pkgs where pkgid = 'com.apple.pkg.BSD';
10.5.0.1.1.1192168948
sqlite> .quit


On the Apple UNIX forum someone suggested I reinstall the BSD package from the Leopard DVD.

 

[TouchOfClass]

Solution from 'Brian P. Campbell' over at the apple.com Forums

sudo mv /usr/bin/emacs-i386 /usr/bin/emacs-i386.backup
sudo /usr/libexec/dumpemacs -d
emacs --version
emacs

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Apparently our older version emacs has a newer build date then the version that installed with Leopard. so emacs didn't get updated. i guess.

 

[ilog]

Solution from 'Brian P. Campbell' over at the apple.com Forums

sudo mv /usr/bin/emacs-i386 /usr/bin/emacs-i386.backup
sudo /usr/libexec/dumpemacs -d
emacs --version
emacs

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Apparently our older version emacs has a newer build date then the version that installed with Leopard. so emacs didn't get updated. i guess.

I also saw this fix at apple.com. It fixed my emacs problem.

 

[lambda]

Solution from 'Brian P. Campbell' over at the apple.com Forums

sudo mv /usr/bin/emacs-i386 /usr/bin/emacs-i386.backup
sudo /usr/libexec/dumpemacs -d
emacs --version
emacs

Of course, if you're having this problem on a PPC machine, replace the emacs-i386 in the commands with emacs-ppc

Apparently our older version emacs has a newer build date then the version that installed with Leopard. so emacs didn't get updated. i guess.

Yeah, there's a post-install build phase that needs to happen, but if the date of your installed Emacs is later than the date that Leopard was build (October 11), that phase doesn't get run. This is a bug, and I'll file a Radar with Apple about it.

(btw, I'm the Brian P. Campbell from the Apple forum)

 

[alfgames]

same issue on a PPC

I have an Aluminum Powerbook G4, and I am getting the same error message after having downloaded the October 24th Tiger update and since then upgraded to Leopard. I tried the following commands:

mv /usr/bin/emacs-ppc /usr/bin/emacs-ppc.backup
sudo /usr/libexec/dumpemacs -d

No dice. Running emacs-ppc works fine, but I'm not sure how to make the regular emacs work. Thanks!