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Tue 29 Sep 2009

Compiling Emacs.app on Snow Leopard

Posted by admin under Emacs, OS X
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UPDATE: Emacs.app builds fine (and has for a while) as a 64 bit application.

As previous noted, when it comes to Emacs for the Mac, I’m a fan of Emacs.app. However, Emacs.app is not quite ready for Snow Leopard’s 64 bit support. You must compile it as a 32 bit executable.


cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/emacs co emacs
cd emacs
env CC='gcc -arch i386' ./configure --with-ns
./configure --with-ns
make
make install # This builds the .app wrapper, it does not install anything.

Then move nextstep/Emacs.app in to /Applications.

The developers have been actively working on Snow Leopard issues; hopefully 64 bit support is not far behind.

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Wed 2 Sep 2009

Pro Git

Posted by Spike under Git
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Scott Chacon, one of the guys behind GitHub, has released Pro Git, which, as the name suggests, is a new Git book.   He’s made it available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 license, which is to say it’s free.  It cover the basics you’d except, but really shines when it comes to advanced usages, customization, policy, hosting, internals, etc.  It’s the resource to reach for when it’s time to loose your amateur status.   And did I mention it’s free?

You can show your support by buying a print copy (the author’s link, not mine).

It also plays nicely with Fluid, using http://progit.org/book for the Fluid URL and perhaps picking up an image from Amazon for the icon.

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