Eli writes:

> The above is not different from any other optional library, such as
> GnuTLS or librsvg.  The exact commands to install them depend on the
> distro you are using, and we don't describe them in our documentation.

Thanks for the clarification. I was misled by finding some tree-sitter
related files
in the admin/ directory tree.  As far as I see, tree-sitter is not very
widely provided (as
opposed to GnuTLS or librsvg...)

I'm on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and have little time to face a migration to 22.04
and I haven't
found anyone providing a PPA to install tree-sitter on my system. Same
might also
be true for many Debian users...

Well... it will have to wait until the summer (if and when I have spare
cycles to upgrade the system).
Anyhow, there are plenty of things to look inside Emacs on my practically
non-existing free cycles now.
:-)

Thanks again,
WR,/PA

On Sat, 10 Dec 2022 at 09:46, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <paaguti@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 08:29:08 +0100
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >
> > To start testing tree-sitter, do I "just" need to include
> --enable-tree-sitter in my configure step or do I need
> > something (more|else) on a
> > clean-slate (Linux|macOS) system? Does the emacs build process provide
> all the necessary steps or is
> > some external configuration/installation
> > needed?
>
> You need to make sure the tree-sitter library is installed, and so are
> the grammar libraries for the programming languages you want to use.
> Then just rebuild Emacs; --enable-tree-sitter is ON by default, so if
> you have the library installed, the build process with DTRT.
>
> > This is the kind of "extra documentation" some of us are yearning for ;-)
>
> The above is not different from any other optional library, such as
> GnuTLS or librsvg.  The exact commands to install them depend on the
> distro you are using, and we don't describe them in our documentation.
>


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