Installing emacs-w3m (via el-get) on OS X?

[Peter]

I'm trying to install w3m on my OS X system so I can read HTML
messages
with Wanderlust. I've managed to install el-get and, with that,
Wanderlust. However, when I try to install emacs-w3m, I get errors
that
autoconf is not found:

el-get is waiting for "/bin/bash" to complete
emacs-w3m failed to install: (error el-get: /bin/bash el-get could not
build emacs-w3m [/bin/bash -c autoconf]) [2 times]
el-get-installation-failed: el-get: /bin/bash el-get could not build
emacs-w3m [/bin/bash -c autoconf]

Anyone know how to get past this?

Thanks,
-pd

[Lewis Perin]

Post by Peter
I'm trying to install w3m on my OS X system so I can read HTML
messages
with Wanderlust. I've managed to install el-get and, with that,
Wanderlust. However, when I try to install emacs-w3m, I get errors
that
el-get is waiting for "/bin/bash" to complete
emacs-w3m failed to install: (error el-get: /bin/bash el-get could not
build emacs-w3m [/bin/bash -c autoconf]) [2 times]
el-get-installation-failed: el-get: /bin/bash el-get could not build
emacs-w3m [/bin/bash -c autoconf]
Anyone know how to get past this?

For reasons that will soon become obvious, I can’t answer your question
exactly as asked. But maybe I can help anyway.

I don’t use Wanderlust, but VM, which I do use, has certain similarities
to Wanderlust. I was pondering how to use emacs-w3m with VM not too
long ago, and it seemed kind of daunting. At that point, I noticed that
it was possible to use w3m directly with VM, basically redirecting w3m’s
stdout to VM’s stdin. I tried it, and I’m quite pleased with the
results. Maybe Wanderlust lets you do this, too?

/Lew
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Lew Perin / ***@acm.org
http://babelcarp.org

[Ellen Taylor]

Post by Peter
I'm trying to install w3m on my OS X system so I can read HTML
messages
with Wanderlust. I've managed to install el-get and, with that,
Wanderlust. However, when I try to install emacs-w3m, I get errors
that
el-get is waiting for "/bin/bash" to complete
emacs-w3m failed to install: (error el-get: /bin/bash el-get could not
build emacs-w3m [/bin/bash -c autoconf]) [2 times]
el-get-installation-failed: el-get: /bin/bash el-get could not build
emacs-w3m [/bin/bash -c autoconf]
Anyone know how to get past this?
Thanks,
-pd

Is there a reason you can't just install it manually? Just grab the CVS
version (packaged version is severely OOD) and install it normally.

[Peter]

Post by Peter
I'm trying to install w3m on my OS X system so I can read HTML
messages
with Wanderlust. I've managed to install el-get and, with that,
Wanderlust. However, when I try to install emacs-w3m, I get errors
that
el-get is waiting for "/bin/bash" to complete
emacs-w3m failed to install: (error el-get: /bin/bash el-get could not
build emacs-w3m [/bin/bash -c autoconf]) [2 times]
el-get-installation-failed: el-get: /bin/bash el-get could not build
emacs-w3m [/bin/bash -c autoconf]
Anyone know how to get past this?

I did manage to get this resolved. Although 'which autoconf' worked in a normal shell window, it did not work in emacs shell. I had set both the PATH environment variable and the exec-path variable in emacs, but somehow, emacs shell was using something else. Anyone know where that path comes from?

Anyway, I wound up creating a symlink to autoconf from /usr/sbin, which was on the emacs shell path, and that worked.

I could have installed it manually, I suppose, but el-get really makes it easy (usually) to install and manage different packages.