Re: How to get web browsing functionality in emacs 23?

[Thierry Volpiatto]

guivho <guivho@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Thierry,
>
>> Be sure you use cvs version (last) of emacs-w3m with all emacs >23
>
> Ok, I got the latest cvs tarball from
> http://cvs.namazu.org/emacs-w3m.tar.gz and untarred it. It does not
> have a configure script, so I executed autoconf (as instructed in the
> README) and ran configure again to end up with a cryptic error
> message:
>
> $ cd elisp/emacs-w3m/
> $ ./configure
> ./configure: command not found
> $ autoconf
> $ ./configure
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking for makeinfo... makeinfo
> checking for texi2dvi... texi2dvi
> checking for ptex... false
> checking for jbibtex... false
> checking for dvipdfmx... false
> checking for texi2pdf... texi2pdf
> checking for egrep... egrep
> checking for emacs... /usr/bin/emacs
> checking what a flavor does /usr/bin/emacs have... cat:
> ./conftest-27598: No such file or directory
>
> configure: error:  is not supported.
> $
>
> So I'm afraid I'd need some more assistance and advice! I do hope to
> end up with a working emacs-w3m!

It seem the configure script can't parse your emacs-version for some reason.
Maybe try: 

./configure --with-emacs=emacs

But you should ask now on emacs-w3m mailing-list how to build on mac.


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