iThe emacsforosx binaries work well and are fine if you don't want to
actually compile fro source.

BTW I don't think you should be overly concerned about homebrew not using
sudo. While there are issues with homebrew on multi-use systems, the way it
works without sudo is really no different to downloading the source and
building it in your home directory and running it from there. Yes, it does
store the software in /usr/local, but it is not installing it as
root/system, but as your user (one reason it doesn't work well with
multi-user systems). If you really want, you can install it within your
home directory (although this can cause some problems with some recipes
where the source expects to be installed in /usr/local and you will need to
handle linking to bin dirs yourself).  Main point is, homebrew isn't doing
dangerous things with suid etc in order to avoid sudo and your not
installing something which has dangerous escalated privileges etc. There
are all the standard risks of installing software from the 'net', but these
are no different whether you use sudo or not.

On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 at 18:51, Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> wrote:

>
>    > Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>
>
>    > I think the easiest approach is to use homebrew. You have at least 3
>    > options with homebrew. There is the basic emacs recipe, which will
> build
>    > 27.1 by default, there is a pre-built 'cask' version which will just
>    > install it and then there are additional casks, like the
> rallycat/emacs
>    > cask which will install a pre-built macport version of 27.1 (which is
>    > what I use and find it really successful).
>
>
> Thanks
>    > Nice thing about homebrew is that it can install all the dependencies
>    > you need to build on the mac, like gnutls and libraries for svg etc.
>
>    > If your going to build from sources directly via a pull from the
> repo, I
>    > don't think you want the x-toolkit stuff. The mac doesn't include an X
>    > server anymore (you have to install XQuartz if you want an X server).
>    > Probably what you need is the ns libraries.
>
> I have XQuartz installed via fink but it turns out I will need to fiddle
> the modifies (at least the fink version of emacs)
>
>
>    > Personally, I would go with homebrew and the emacs recipe or the
>    > rallycat cask and the macports Emacs it installs (Emacs 27.1).
>
> I might  give also emacsforosx a try
>


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regards,

Tim

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