emacs broken in leopard?

After created a new version of emacs for Leopard using your indications, i have another problem when i want to install emacs from macport:

emacs --version
GNU Emacs 22.1.1
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of Emacs
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
alien7:~ delaunay$ sudo port install 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_editorsemacs/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
_jumptable 0x28d5c0 0x3fc
4 LC_SEGMENT 56 __LINKEDIT 0x28e000 0x29000
5 LC_SYMTAB 24
6 LC_DYSYMTAB 80
7 LC LOADDYLINKER 28
8 LC_UNIXTHREAD 80
9 LC LOADDYLIB 60
10 LC LOADDYLIB 52
11 LC LOADDYLIB 52
make[1]: * [emacs] Abort trap
make[1]: * Deleting file `emacs'
make: * [src] Error 2

could you help me ?
thanks in advance.

The reason it breaks if you've recently installed 10.4, but not if you installed it a while ago, is that it's checking the modification date of /usr/bin/emacs. If it is newer than the one built with Leopard, it won't run the dumpemacs process which builds the new /usr/bin/emacs out of /usr/bin/emacs-i386 and a dump of the compiled elisp files. So, if your Tiger emacs is newer than your Leopard one (because you installed Tiger after Leopard was built), it just doesn't upgrade you.

Why there's a check on the date of the emacs binary, I have no idea. I've filed a bug with Apple about this, but I haven't heard anything about it.

Hi, I have the same problem: I tried to build emacs for x11 (after applying the patch). I tried the three possibilities :
1)./configure
2)./configure --without-carbon --with-x
3) the one proposed by stbose
nothing works and the message is always

checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin9.0.0
checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin9.0.0
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name...
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

I don't know what I can do!!!

Sorry doesn't work for me. Here comes the output...

Last login: Thu Jan 10 10:01:41 on tty??
elie:~ Antoine$ sudo mv /usr/bin/emacs-i386 /usr/bin/emacs-i386.backup
Password:
elie:~ Antoine$ sudo /usr/libexec/dumpemacs -d
Checking if emacs is up-to-date
emacs is not up-to-date. Needs dumping
Generating random directory with template /tmp/emacs.XXXXXX
Directory is /tmp/emacs.IgzbjZ
Making directory /tmp/emacs.IgzbjZ/etc
Making directory /tmp/emacs.IgzbjZ/lib-src
Making directory /tmp/emacs.IgzbjZ/src
Making symlink /tmp/emacs.IgzbjZ/etc/GNU -> /usr/share/emacs/22.1/etc/GNU
Making symlink /tmp/emacs.IgzbjZ/etc/DOC -> /usr/share/emacs/22.1/etc/DOC-22.1.1
Thinning /usr/bin/emacs-undumped to /tmp/emacs.IgzbjZ/src/temacs
Attempting to dump emacs
Loading loadup.el (source)...
Using load-path (/usr/share/emacs/22.1/site-lisp /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp /usr/share/emacs/22.1/lisp /usr/share/emacs/22.1/leim)
Loading emacs-lisp/byte-run...
Loading emacs-lisp/backquote...
Loading subr...
Loading version.el (source)...
Loading widget...
Loading custom...
Loading emacs-lisp/map-ynp...
Loading env...
Loading cus-start...
Loading international/mule...
Loading international/mule-conf.el (source)...
Loading format...
Loading bindings...
Loading files...
Loading cus-face...
Loading faces...
Lists of integers (garbage collection statistics) are normal output
while building Emacs; they do not indicate a problem.
((10157 . 6835) (4583 . 0) (577 . 4) 15747 15428 (8 . 5) (17 . 0) (849 . 2175))
Loading loaddefs.el (source)...
((28020 . 11589) (7535 . 0) (586 . 10) 41819 15428 (34 . 33) (17 . 0) (3702 . 1464))
Loading simple...
Loading help...
Loading jka-cmpr-hook...
Loading international/mule-cmds...
Loading case-table...
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Loading international/utf-16...
Loading international/characters...
Loading international/latin-1.el (source)...
Loading international/latin-2.el (source)...
Loading international/latin-3.el (source)...
Loading international/latin-4.el (source)...
Loading international/latin-5.el (source)...
Loading international/latin-8.el (source)...
Loading international/latin-9.el (source)...
Loading language/chinese...
Loading language/cyrillic...
Loading language/indian...
Loading language/devanagari.el (source)...
Loading language/malayalam.el (source)...
Loading language/tamil.el (source)...
Loading language/kannada.el (source)...
Loading language/english.el (source)...
Loading language/ethiopic...
Loading language/european...
Loading language/czech.el (source)...
Loading language/slovak.el (source)...
Loading language/romanian.el (source)...
Loading language/greek.el (source)...
Loading language/hebrew.el (source)...
Loading language/japanese.el (source)...
Loading language/korean.el (source)...
Loading language/lao.el (source)...
Loading language/thai.el (source)...
Loading language/tibetan...
Loading language/vietnamese...
Loading language/misc-lang.el (source)...
Loading language/utf-8-lang.el (source)...
Loading language/georgian.el (source)...
Loading international/ucs-tables...
Loading indent...
Loading window...
Loading frame...
Loading term/tty-colors...
Loading font-core...
Loading facemenu...
Loading emacs-lisp/syntax...
Loading font-lock...
Loading jit-lock...
Loading mouse...
Loading scroll-bar...
Loading select...
Loading emacs-lisp/timer...
Loading isearch...
Loading rfn-eshadow...
((48186 . 18707) (10477 . 0) (620 . 69) 62975 159484 (64 . 3) (18 . 12) (4968 . 1899))
Loading menu-bar...
Loading paths.el (source)...
Loading startup...
Loading emacs-lisp/lisp...
Loading textmodes/page...
Loading register...
Loading textmodes/paragraphs...
Loading emacs-lisp/lisp-mode...
Loading textmodes/text-mode...
Loading textmodes/fill...
((55042 . 11851) (11132 . 0) (622 . 67) 76227 161154 (64 . 3) (18 . 12) (5507 . 2494))
Loading replace...
Loading abbrev...
Loading buff-menu...
Loading fringe...
Loading image...
Loading international/fontset...
Loading dnd...
Loading mwheel...
Loading tool-bar...
((56679 . 10214) (11557 . 0) (623 . 66) 77178 161729 (66 . 8) (18 . 12) (5551 . 2324))
Loading emacs-lisp/float-sup...
((56706 . 10187) (11561 . 0) (623 . 66) 77482 161729 (67 . 9) (18 . 12) (5559 . 2316))
Loading vc-hooks...
Loading ediff-hook...
Loading tooltip...
((58012 . 8881) (11703 . 0) (624 . 65) 78479 161780 (69 . 7) (18 . 12) (5624 . 2251))
Finding pointers to doc strings...
Finding pointers to doc strings...done
Dumping under names emacs and emacs-22.1.1
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Lowest offset of all sections in __TEXT segment: 0x1934
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12 LC LOADDYLIB 104
13 LC LOADDYLIB 56
14 LC LOADDYLIB 52
15 LC LOADDYLIB 52
16 LC LOADDYLIB 100
17 LC LOADDYLIB 112
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Writing LC_SYMTAB command
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Writing LC_DYSYMTAB command
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Writing LC LOADDYLIB command
Writing LC LOADDYLIB command
Writing LC LOADDYLIB command
Writing LC LOADDYLIB command
Writing LC LOADDYLIB command
Writing LC LOADDYLIB command
Writing LC LOADDYLIB command
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Writing LC CODESIGNATURE command
4016 unused bytes follow Mach-O header
1100910 pure bytes used
emacs dumped as /tmp/emacs.IgzbjZ/src/emacs
Installing dumped emacs
elie:~ Antoine$ emacs --version
GNU Emacs 21.2.1
Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of Emacs
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
elie:~ Antoine$ emacs
Fatal malloc_jumpstart() error
elie:~ Antoine$

I have Leopard 10.5.1 and emacs gave me the same error.

This worked perfectly for me.

Thank you very much.

Just ran the suggested commands from stbose and was able to get things working. Make sure to use the patch as noted in cizmas Nov 19, 8:40AM post:

curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/emacs-22.1.tar.gz
tar xvfz emacs-22.1.tar.gz
curl -O http://ephemera.continuation.org/patches/emacs-leopard-unexec.patch
patch -p0 <emacs-leopard-unexec.patch

when applying the patch it asked for which file to patch so i entered:
emacs-22.1/src/unexmacosx.c

and then from stbose Nov 19, 11:58PM

./configure --without-carbon --with-x --without-toolkit-scroll-bars --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib --x-include=/usr/X11R6/include XMKMF=/usr/X11R6/bin
make bootstrap
make
sudo make install

Thanks for your help!