BUG: emacs fails to fetch emacs-21.4.tar.gz

[boswell@…]

When trying to install emacs, port goes through all of the mirrors for downloading the file emacs -21.4.tar.gz and never finds the file. I have checked some of these mirrors by hand and I agree that this file does not exist. What does exist (at least on ​ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs) is emacs -21.4a.tar.gz. This is probably the latest release of emacs and the Portfile should be made to reflect this.

This probably only requires updating the Portfile with the version number, 21.4a, and the correct md5 checksum.

[toby@…]

assign to maintainer

[eric.stokes@…]

It is with great dismay that I must report that it is not quite this simple to fix. Not only is the file now called emacs-21.4a.tar.gz (and with a different checksum), but it still extracts to a directory called emacs-21.4. This, of course, breaks the build, so it will be necessary to move this directory to emacs-21.4a before applying patches. *bow* Praise GNU *bow* Praise GNU.

[jkh@…]

Have you checked the latest version in darwinports? It builds properly with 21.4a.