> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

> If you simply want to install and not compile then the ports package
> name is ‘emacs-app-devel’.

> But I use Homebrew. So I just copied David’s work -
> https://github.com/caldwell/build-emacs

> What I did was - I followed the instructions on the above page. It
> installed all the dependencies (using Homebrew). And then started
> building emacs from source tar (it downloads from Emacs repo). I
> interrupt the build. And instead,

> 1. Checkout Emacs repository from main git repo
> 2. ./configure
> 3. make install

> Now the Emacs.app is in nextstep directory.

> I know it is kind of rough approach but it saved a lot of time figuring
> out and installing dependencies.



Thanks, good to know that this works, but I think homebrew would for me
the method of last resorts (because of the lack of sudo)