mxcl/homebrew — Issue #10480: emacs patch "garbage" on new install
Author: jklowden
Created: 2012-02-25 23:12:20+00:00
State: open

Hi! I live under a rock and just heard about Homebrew. Nice going.

There seems to be an error in an emacs patch. On OS X 10.6.8 I did a brand new install of Homebrew and immediately did this:

$ brew install emacs
==> Downloading http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-23.3b.tar.bz2
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Downloading patches
######################################################################## 100.0%
######################################################################## 100.0%
######################################################################## 100.0%
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Patching
patching file src/ChangeLog
patching file src/unexmacosx.c
patching file src/s/darwin.h
/usr/bin/patch: **** Only garbage was found in the patch input.
Error: Failure while executing: /usr/bin/patch -f -p1 -i 003-homebrew.diff

Being brand new at this, I thought I should post before trying to debug.

Goal is emac with X.