Has anyone successfully compiled the latest CVS version of Emacs on Snow Leopard? If so, could you provide instructions? I was using the following on Leopard, and it worked fine:
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[email protected]:/sources/emacs co emacs
cd emacs
./configure --enable-carbon-app --with-ns --with-jpeg=no --with-gif=no \
--with-tiff=no
make bootstrap
make
sudo make install
sudo cp -r nextstep/Emacs.app /Applications/Emacs.app
but this no longer works on Snow Leopard.
In the absence of any other information, check out this thread which details Emacs/Snow Leopard problems and their ultimate resolution.
To answer my own question, there are pre-build binaries of Emacs that work on Snow Leopard, such as http://emacsformacosx.com/
The patches that are available in various places only work for specific CVS revisions most of the time.
You may also want to look at Aquamacs, which currently has a beta for the latest Emacs and offers somewhat better OS X integration than the default build.
You need to add one option in your configure step:
./configure --with-ns CC='gcc -arch i386' --with-jpeg=no --with-gif=no --with-tiff=no
emacs has not been not released yet for the mac 64 bit architecture
--enable-carbon-app is also unnecessary now