From: "Charles A. Roelli" <charles@aurox.ch>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>,
Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com>,
itai.berli@gmail.com
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Installing Emacs from source: the command `C-h v` for accessing variables doesn't work
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 17:06:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a4a73c52-f859-d009-36a6-29b233bf4f5f@aurox.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e34b2b2d-c292-d867-1a35-cf36e2573697@aurox.ch>
I've pushed the fix for this. Running 'src/emacs -q' after 'make'
should now result in a usable GUI Emacs under macOS.
On 18/07/2017 22:31, Charles A. Roelli wrote:
>>> Indeed. I just tried with just "make" and I got what Ital described,
>>> so it is not connected to the environment variable issue that I
>>> mentioned...
>>
>> I believe #27645 proposes to remove this quirk.
>> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=27645
>
> It's a fix for a related issue; the point of the patch in that bug
> report is to be able to run GUI Emacs from src/emacs, not from an
> incomplete application bundle in nextstep/Emacs.app. Thankfully,
> Emacs already has code (I think) to set 'load-path' and the like
> specially when we run from 'src/emacs', so the only modification I
> needed to make to the NS-specific code was to let the OS allow the
> Emacs frame to have focus. This change should prevent people
> developing on NS from having to run 'make install' all the time to get
> a working GUI build, since 'src/emacs -q' will work.
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-23 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-18 7:40 Installing Emacs from source: the command `C-h v` for accessing variables doesn't work Itai Berli
2017-07-18 13:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-18 13:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-18 14:09 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-18 15:17 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-07-18 15:26 ` Itai Berli
2017-07-18 15:32 ` Itai Berli
2017-07-18 20:31 ` Charles A. Roelli
2017-07-23 15:06 ` Charles A. Roelli [this message]
2017-07-18 13:43 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
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