Hello,

On 2021-09-25 10:26, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

> I think it is a bug in doom or straight, or at least an assumption that
> turns out to be wrong. They are assuming the elisp is runnable from git,
> but in fact it needs to run make to create notmuch-version.el. I think
> the straight recipe could specify a ":pre-build" step to build
> notmuch-version.el. I attach a Makefile snippet that shows how to build
> the file without running configure. You'd still need make, git, and sed. 

For the record, this was fixed in doom in this commit:
https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs/commit/473eda795a1fcfd5562798bab6f79f72b0cebb6f

Best,

Alan