Re: Building "vanilla" emacs on macOS (summary)

[Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org>]

Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> writes:

>> Ok. Then there is a bug in the generated ‘configure’ script. In my
>> trials, ‘./configure’, said ‘no’ for the above libraries when I didn’t
>> install the Homebrew packages and ‘yes’ otherwise.
>
> that's true, but you don't require them as long as configure reports:
>
>     Does Emacs use native APIs for images?                  yes (ns)
>
> If you have both native API and the libraries built-in you can make
> Emacs use either, although I can't remember off-hand how to force it
> to use the libraries.
>
> Now, if you're building Emacs 27 it won't report that, but it will
> still prefer the native image API, and I'd suggest whatever else you
> do you don't actually want to use giflib as the native gif support is
> less buggy.

Thanks for this info, Alan.