[ESS] Error installing on Mac
Martin Maechler
m@ech|er @end|ng |rom @t@t@m@th@ethz@ch
Fri Mar 8 12:05:12 CET 2024
>>>>> Liz Hare via ESS-help
>>>>> on Thu, 7 Mar 2024 09:49:12 -0500 writes:
>>>>> Liz Hare via ESS-help
>>>>> on Thu, 7 Mar 2024 09:49:12 -0500 writes:
> Hi all,
> I'm updating ESS by installing from source. I uncommented the MacOS related lines from makeconfig, but I get this error:
I think you mean ess/Makeconf, right?
In there, indeed it uses things like
PREFIX=/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources
EMACS=/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs
>> make
> /bin/sh: /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs: No such file or directory
and obviously your Emacs is not at the above 'EMACS=....' location.
I have no make at disposal, but maybe a Mac user can help:
Where is your Emacs installing into?
> ********************* VERSIONS **************************
> ESS 24.01.1
> ESSR 1.8
> sed: 1: "lisp/ess-custom.el": extra characters at the end of l command
> make: *** [version] Error 1
> This error appears to be related to the fact that the BSD sed on Mac is different than the GNU sed.
hmm.. our Makefile only uses pretty basic 'sed' calls; hence I'm not sure.
Also strange that the error messages end with "end of l command"
-- in the few sed uses in our Makefile/Makeconf I only see
versions of sed s/.../ or sed "s| ...|p" i.e., not "l command"..
> I looked for a similar issue on GitHub but didn't find anything.
Would installing the whole bundle Emacs+ESS+{more}
from Vincent Goulet's website, mentioned
at https://ess.r-project.org/ i.e.
https://ess.r-project.org/index.php?Section=download
be an option: For a few years now it's been
as https://emacs-modified.gitlab.io/ then for macOS
at https://emacs-modified.gitlab.io/macos/
however that currently is not using the latest ESS version (but
something quite close to it).
Still agree that would be a workaround, and we should try to
ensure that macOS users can install ESS from the sources.
I have started to recommend installing the 'ess' package
> Thanks,
> Liz
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