from the desk of stinkpot

when trying to install emacs using macports on my new snow leopard install, i got the following error:

foo://opt/local/sudo port install emacs
—>  Computing dependencies for emacs
—>  Fetching emacs
—>  Verifying checksum(s) for emacs
—>  Extracting emacs
—>  Applying patches to emacs
—>  Configuring emacs
—>  Building emacs
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-22.3″ && /usr/bin/make -j2 all ” returned error 2
Command output:                            __la_symbol_ptr  0×100152070    0×628
__program_vars   0×1001526a0     0×28
__const          0×1001526e0    0×730
__data           0×100152e20 0×1df3e8
__bss            0×100332220  0×51830
__common         0×100383a60  0×103f9
3 LC_SEGMENT_64          72 __LINKEDIT       0×100394000  0×46000
4 unknown                48
5 LC_SYMTAB              24
6 LC_DYSYMTAB            80
7 LC_LOAD_DYLINKER       32
8 LC_UUID                24
9 LC_UNIXTHREAD         184
10 LC_LOAD_DYLIB          64
11 LC_LOAD_DYLIB          56
0×100dfc080 (sz:   0×3f24/  0×3f28)
0×100d00000 (sz:  0×4a6d5/ 0xfc080)
0×100afc080 (sz:   0×3f25/  0×3f28)
0×100a00000 (sz:  0xfc07f/ 0xfc080)
0×1017f8000 (sz:   0×26ca/  0×7fa0)
0×101000000 (sz: 0×26a7fd/0×7f8000)
0×10044c000 (sz:        0/  0×1000)
— Load Commands written to Output File —
Writing segment __PAGEZERO       @        0 (       0/0×100000000 @          0)
Writing segment __TEXT           @        0 (0×152000/0×152000 @ 0×100000000)
Writing segment __DATA           @ 0×152000 (0×242000/0×242000 @ 0×100152000)
section __nl_symbol_ptr  at 0×152000 - 0×152070 (sz:     0×70)
section __la_symbol_ptr  at 0×152070 - 0×152698 (sz:    0×628)
make[1]: *** [emacs] Error 1
make: *** [src] Error 2

Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

to resolve:

1. download the patch file found here.
2. install the patch: foo://opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_editors_emacs/work/emacs-22.3/sudo patch -p0 < ~/Downloads/emacs-snow-leopard.patch
3. sudo port install emacs