Книга: Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Edition

13.2.3.1.1 Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2) preparation

13.2.3.1.1 Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2) preparation

The first of the extra notes is that you should upgrade to Panther (10.3) if you aren't there already. Seriously. There are lots of benefits. But if that's just not in the cards for you, you do need to take a small detour before installing Emacs.

Mac OS X 10.2 lacks a piece of software required for Emacs: texinfo. (That tool comes preinstalled on 10.3.) It's not hard to install; you just have to remember to do it. You basically install the texinfo package as you would if any other Unix package. You can look back at the previous section for more details, but here are the basics.

You'll need to perform these commands from the Terminal application. By default, Terminal starts you out with a C-Shell variant, so we'll use the % character for the prompt in the commands for this section.

1. Pull the texinfo package from the /pub/gnu/texinfo folder at ftp.gnu.org. The compressed archive file will be called something like texinfo-4.7.tar.gz. Grab the latest version available.

2. Unpack the archive.

% tar xvzf texinfo-4.7.tar.gz

If you downloaded texinfo through a browser, chances are the browser uncompressed it for you. Some of them might even have unpacked it as well. If you have a. tar file sitting on your desktop, you can unpack it like this:

% tar xvf texinfo-4.7.tar

3. Move to the texinfo-4.7 directory and configure your build.

% ./configure

4. Assuming that all goes well, you can build everything:

% make

5. And assuming that went well, you can install it. But you'll have to do that as an administrator. Fortunately that's easy to do in the Terminal window. Just run this command:

% sudo make install

You'll be prompted for your password. Type it in and everything should go well. If you aren't allowed to administer your own machine, you'll need the help of someone who does have admin privileges.

Now that you've installed texinfo, you'll need to download, unpack, and install Emacs, either by following Andrew Choi's instructions or ours in the "Emacs and Unix" section earlier in this chapter.

Your Mac build should end up creating a double-clickable icon that you can drag and drop into your Applications folder just like the prebuilt download.

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