# sorry, I didn't reply to the list Starting emacs from shell does work. I installed quack, it looks like it manage scheme command. There's probably a way to customize it. ./configure --enable-mac64 : for snow leopard in 64 bit --enable-xonx : to make a unix like installation (need for --prefix) Thank you <div class="gmail_quote">2011/7/14 John Clements <<a href="mailto:clements@brinckerhoff.org">clements@brinckerhoff.org</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im"> On Jul 13, 2011, at 8:19 PM, Lavoie Francis wrote: > Hi, > > I want to learn racket. I already started learning lisp from Land of Lisp, Practical Common Lisp and a bit of Clojure. > > For my everyday job (python, javascript) I use emacs, to learn lisp and clojure I used emacs with slime. I would like to do the same thing with racket but I ran into trouble, emacs can't find racket. > > First, it looks like emacs for OS X does not use the users' own $PATH, but the one of the system. I tried some hack I found on google (<a href="http://olabini.com/blog/2009/12/path-problem-with-emacs-on-mac-os-x/" target="_blank">http://olabini.com/blog/2009/12/path-problem-with-emacs-on-mac-os-x/</a>, <a href="http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsApp#toc2" target="_blank">http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsApp#toc2</a>) without luck, emacs can't find racket. </div>This one I can shed some light on. If you start emacs (or any other program) from a shell (running in a terminal window), it inherits that shell's PATH. If you start it from the finder, though, it doesn't. One way to fix this is to start emacs from a terminal window. Another is to try a hack such as the one you describe. Another one is to explicitly specify the path in the command that runs racket. <div class="im"> > > So I tried to compile racket from source. I used the unix build to install racket into the standard path. >> ./configure --enable-mac64 --enable-xonx --prefix=/usr/local > It produced the following error message: --enable-mac64 and --enable-xonx are not valid option; but everything runs well and works! Great I can start to create some stuff. > > But I still have some issues. I cannot load gracket, I get an error because it is unable to locate cairo. > ffi-lib: couldn't open "libcairo.2.dylib" (dlopen(libcairo.2.dylib, 10): image not found) </div>It certainly looks to me like the problem you're seeing is a result of the incompatible flags. Can you tell me why you want --enable-xonx? I run racket every day on an OS X box without issue. Is it actually important that it run under X? John Clements </blockquote></div>