[Emacspeak] Re: installing on Mac osx

[Tim Cross <theophilusx@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK. So emacs will startup fine if your not trying to load emacspeak?

Next things to verify.

1. How did you install emacspeak (tarball, git repo etc).

2. Are you trying to use the 'mac' speech server or 'espeak' speech
server?

3. Have you set any environment variables to configure which speech
server to use e.g. DTK_PROGRAM?

My guess is that you are trying to use espeak and don't have a valid
espeak instance installed. In the terminal where you run emacs try

export DTK_PROGRAM=mac
emacs

and see if you get a better result.

The other thing I would try is a 'make clean' before 'make config' and
'make' i.e.

make clean
make config
make

for emacspeak. 
Mohammed Alderweesh <alderweesh.m(a)gmail.com> writes:

> Here is the output of echo $path
>
> /usr/local/bin /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin
>
> and here is the output of which emacs:
>
> /usr/local/bin/emacs  
>
> Note that when I open emacs without loading emacspeak-setup.el, I get the emacs version is 27.2.
>
> Thank you. 
>
> Mohammed
>
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 1:23 AM Tim Cross <theophilusx(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  I think we first need to verify that your path variable is correct and
>  your running the version of emacs installed by homebrew. Can you run in
>  a terminal the following commands and paste the output in a reply?
>
>  echo $PATH
>
>  which emacs
>
>  and then try running
>
>  /usr/local/bin/emacs
>
>  and see if that makes any difference.
>
>  Mohammed Alderweesh <alderweesh.m(a)gmail.com> writes:
>
>  > Hi Tim,
>  >
>  > I used:
>  >
>  > brew install -cask emacs
>  >
>  > Then, I built emacspeak using:
>  >
>  > make config
>  > make emacspeak 
>  >
>  > Then, I added the following to .emacs.el:
>  >
>  > (load-file “~/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el”)
>  >  When I remove this line from the .emacs.el, emacs works normally. 
>  >
>  > The version of emacs is 27.2 
>  > When I use the command
>  > Emacs
>  >
>  > I get the error mentioned in the last email.
>  > When I use the command:
>  >
>  > emacspeak
>  >
>  > I get command not found.
>  >
>  > Thank you
>  > Mohammed
>  >
>  > On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 8:16 AM Tim Cross <theophilusx(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >  How did you install Emacs? What version is it? 
>  >
>  >  What is the exact command your running in the terminal to start emacsthe 
>  >
>  >  What do you have in your emacs init file?
>  >
>  >  This looks like a low level emacs error and not specific to emacspeak.
>  >  The error seems related to memory allocation. My guess is that the build
>  >  of emacs has not worked correctly.
>  >
>  >  Make sure your running a recent version of Emacs (macOS comes with a
>  >  very old version of Emacs which will not work with emacspeak).
>  >
>  >  Mohammed Alderweesh <alderweesh.m(a)gmail.com> writes:
>  >
>  >  > Hello list,
>  >  >
>  >  > My name is Mohammed Alderweesh. This is my first time posting to this list. I am trying to run emacs on Mac os x, I installed the required
>  >  packages,
>  >  > but when I try running it from the terminal I get the following error:
>  >  >
>  >  > 2021-04-20 05:17:01.372 Emacs-x86_64-10_14[10274:228475] Warning: Expected min height of view: (<NSButton: 0x7fbe575bced0>) to
>  be
>  >  less
>  >  > than or equal to 30 but got a height of 32.000000. This error will be logged once per view in violation.
>  >  >
>  >  > 2021-04-20 05:17:01.377 Emacs-x86_64-10_14[10274:228475] Warning: Expected min height of view: (<NSButton: 0x7fbe576376c0>) to
>  be
>  >  less
>  >  > than or equal to 30 but got a height of 32.000000. This error will be logged once per view in violation.
>  >  >
>  >  > Emacs-x86_64-10_14(10274,0x700005a4f000) malloc: *** error for object 0x7000062509f8: pointer being freed was not allocated
>  >  >
>  >  > Emacs-x86_64-10_14(10274,0x700005a4f000) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
>  >  >
>  >  > Fatal error 4: Illegal instruction
>  >  >
>  >  > zsh: abort      emacs
>  >  >
>  >  > Can you please help me into how to run the software?
>  >  >
>  >  > Thank you.
>  >  >
>  >  > Mohammed
>  >  >
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