Here's the Problem: http://lists.apple.com/archives/x11-users/2007/Oct/msg00065.html

Here's a proposed "fix": http://aaroniba.net/articles/x11-leopard.html

If they didn't add RPATH support, DTrace, and pretty much avoid judicious changes, I'd be throwing stones. As it stands, this is extremely annoying, but tolerable. Looking forward to the fix...

-lloyd

I cannot live without X11 emacs! It doesn't build from macports right now. As far as I can tell, the emacs that apple ships with leopard is broken, at least for me after upgrade I get:

[lth@tumno ~] $ /usr/bin/emacs.broken 
Fatal malloc_jumpstart() error

This blog entry documents the steps to get emacs built, installed and in the macports registry. So at the time of writing, this is the package I'm installing:

[lth@tumno ~] $ port search emacs | grep 22.1
emacs                          editors/emacs  22.1         The GNU Emacs text editor (command line only)

Start by trying to install

[lth@tumno ~] $ sudo port install emacs@gtk--->  Fetching emacs
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for emacs
--->  Extracting emacs
--->  Applying patches to emacs
--->  Configuring emacs
--->  Building emacs with target all
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command
     " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_editors_emacs/work/emacs-22.1" && \
     make all " returned error 2
Command output: Highest address of load commands in input file: 0x2b7000
Lowest offset of all sections in __TEXT segment:   0x2380
--- List of Load Commands in Input File ---
# cmd              cmdsize name                address     size
0 LC_SEGMENT             56 __PAGEZERO                0   0x1000
1 LC_SEGMENT            396 __TEXT               0x1000 0x135000
                           __text               0x3380 0x122eb8
                           __cstring          0x126238   0xfc23
                           __literal8         0x135e60     0x78
                           __const            0x135ee0    0x100
                           __literal4         0x135fe0      0x4
2 LC_SEGMENT            328 __DATA             0x136000 0x156000
                           __data             0x136000 0x119ac2
                           __dyld             0x24fac4     0x1c
                           __bss              0x24fae0  0x31aa5
                           __common           0x2815a0   0xaa51
3 LC_SEGMENT            192 __IMPORT           0x28c000   0x2000
                           __pointers         0x28c000   0x1584
                           __jump_table       0x28d5c0    0x3fc
4 LC_SEGMENT             56 __LINKEDIT         0x28e000  0x29000
5 LC_SYMTAB              24
6 LC_DYSYMTAB            80
7 LC_LOAD_DYLINKER       28
8 LC_UNIXTHREAD          80
9 LC_LOAD_DYLIB          60
10 LC_LOAD_DYLIB          52
11 LC_LOAD_DYLIB          52
make[1]: *** [emacs] Abort trap
make[1]: *** Deleting file `emacs'
make: *** [src] Error 2

Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

So the apple folks have changed the structure of a dylib (to add, among other things, RPATH support. that's a huge w00t).

Let's patch this source. Now for some reason, if we apply a patch directly to the current state of the working directory, things go boom. I'm guessing the fix doesn't play nice with other current patches applied by macports. So I use a sledgehammer. Download emacs-22.1, configure as you like, apply this patch (credit to YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu for producing this patch) and build. Then move the built emacs-22.1 into your working directory, and port install.

The result for me is a emacs which runs in console mode. once I get X11 set up and running sawfish we'll see if it actually works in X11, in the past the emacs-devel package was required for X11 support, and the brief port description suggests this is still the case..

hth,
lloyd