Installing easymacs on OSX

(total emacs newbie, excited at the idea of at last being able to get  
a grasp of the whole thing...)

I just downloaded le most recent version of Carbon Emacs and of  
easymacs and proceeded as per the instructions and found a little  
glitch:

In the FAQ there is a (Windows specific) line:

(setenv "HOME" "C:/path/to/my/home/directory")

To avoid clutter in the home directory.

On OSX too I like to leave my home directory clean as much as I can  
so I used the above line to set HOME to something like "~/Library/ 
Application Support/Emacs" (I also tried Preferences).

The result of this setting is that when I opened the file INSTALL.el  
from the easymacs package I did not get the expected "Emacs-Lisp  
menu" and found myself looking for my mistake.

Although I have no idea why the above line disrupted the install, it  
does happen that removing it altogether from .emacs properly loaded  
the .el files and seemingly installed things succesfully.

I write seemingly because it seems I got an error somewhere:

> Loading /Users/bubu/Library/Application Support/Emacs/easymacs/ 
> easymacs.el (source)...
> Warning: defvar ignored because easymacs-dir is let-bound
> Loading advice...done
> Loading recentf...done
> Loading paren...done
> Loading server...done
> Loading cua-base...done
> Loading cl-macs...done
> Loading easy-mmode...done
> setq: Symbol's value as variable is void: ispell-extra-args
> Loading encoded-kb...done

Also there is no indication that the loading process is completed or  
not... Is there a way to know whether the compile is over ?

Regards,
Jean-Christophe Helary


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