From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Mac port Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 23:57:38 +0100 Message-ID: <87h9j0amn1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87bn9a8an8.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> <5682CA30.904@gmail.com> <5682CC68.8070205@yandex.ru> <87poxp9kxi.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <5682DA02.3060208@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451429868 20130 80.91.229.3 (29 Dec 2015 22:57:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 22:57:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cl=E9ment?= Pit--Claudel , Dmitry Gutov To: Alex Dunn Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 29 23:57:47 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aE3D9-0000SV-AB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 23:57:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50529 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aE3D8-0007DP-Mh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 17:57:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60717) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aE3D4-0007Cv-J5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 17:57:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aE3D3-00005c-PH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 17:57:42 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37477) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aE3D1-00004w-F9; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 17:57:39 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33906 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aE3D0-0006Vp-Mi; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 17:57:39 -0500 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1102DDF87C; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 23:57:38 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (John Wiegley's message of "Tue, 29 Dec 2015 14:37:40 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:197146 Archived-At: John Wiegley writes: >>>>>> Alex Dunn writes: > >> Clang and related build tools are provided by Xcode and the Xcode >> Command-Line Tools, so for software that needs to be compiled; yes. But >> pre-compiled binaries can be installed without. So it might be possible= =E2=80=94I >> haven=E2=80=99t tried=E2=80=94to installed Homebrew=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9Cb= ottled=E2=80=9D GCC, then use that for >> software that needs to be compiled from source, all without agreeing to = the >> Xcode terms. > > Just as a side note: the Nix build of Emacs on Mac does not require > Xcode to be installed. It downloads and builds clang or gcc itself in > order to build Emacs. Xcode is no longer necessary on Mac for building > free software. For command line applications, namely the kind of stuff that would also run under Darwin alone. I don't think that popular versions of Emacs would be in that category. --=20 David Kastrup