# sorry, I didn't reply to the list Starting emacs from shell does work.
I installed quack, it looks like it manage scheme command. There's probably a way to customize it. ./configure --enable-mac64 : for snow leopard in 64 bit --enable-xonx : to make a unix like installation (need for --prefix) Thank you 2011/7/14 John Clements <cleme...@brinckerhoff.org> > > On Jul 13, 2011, at 8:19 PM, Lavoie Francis wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I want to learn racket. I already started learning lisp from Land of > Lisp, Practical Common Lisp and a bit of Clojure. > > > > For my everyday job (python, javascript) I use emacs, to learn lisp and > clojure I used emacs with slime. I would like to do the same thing with > racket but I ran into trouble, emacs can't find racket. > > > > First, it looks like emacs for OS X does not use the users' own $PATH, > but the one of the system. I tried some hack I found on google ( > http://olabini.com/blog/2009/12/path-problem-with-emacs-on-mac-os-x/, > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsApp#toc2) without luck, emacs can't > find racket. > > This one I can shed some light on. If you start emacs (or any other > program) from a shell (running in a terminal window), it inherits that > shell's PATH. If you start it from the finder, though, it doesn't. One way > to fix this is to start emacs from a terminal window. Another is to try a > hack such as the one you describe. Another one is to explicitly specify the > path in the command that runs racket. > > > > > So I tried to compile racket from source. I used the unix build to > install racket into the standard path. > >> ./configure --enable-mac64 --enable-xonx --prefix=/usr/local > > It produced the following error message: --enable-mac64 and --enable-xonx > are not valid option; but everything runs well and works! Great I can start > to create some stuff. > > > > But I still have some issues. I cannot load gracket, I get an error > because it is unable to locate cairo. > > ffi-lib: couldn't open "libcairo.2.dylib" (dlopen(libcairo.2.dylib, 10): > image not found) > > It certainly looks to me like the problem you're seeing is a result of the > incompatible flags. Can you tell me why you want --enable-xonx? I run > racket every day on an OS X box without issue. Is it actually important > that it run under X? > > John Clements > >
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