Re: installing or compiling GNU emacs on Mac Catalina (fink for the moment)

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "DD" == Doug Davis <ddavis@ddavis.io> writes:

   > Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
   >> I know on the list are some Mac Users, so any comments on these issues.

   > I'll give a brief rundown of my macOS GNU Emacs experience.


Thanks for that detailed answer.


   >> 1. Aquamacs (but this is based on GNU 25 and I am not sure what else
   >> it uses).

   > It's been a number of years since I've tried using Aquamacs. As you
   > mentioned it's based on GNU Emacs 25 and hasn't moved much lately, but I
   > think a new maintainer may have taken over recently (I'm not sure);
   > perhaps development will pick up.

   >> 2. https://emacsformacosx.com/ (haven't tried it out) it is 27.1-1
   >> which is pretty good.

   > My first GNU Emacs experience on a Mac was with emacsformacosx.com and
   > it worked fine, but I know it currently has some issues around not being
   > a notarized binary (recent Apple security thing). It's also wrapped by a
   > ruby script that gave some folks headaches at some point (I may be
   > misremembering this issue). I'm not familiar with using it over the last
   > couple of years.

I am tempted to give it a try especially since it «solves» the modifier
problem, I need super and hyper for keybinding.

   >> 3. Try the one shipped with fink (that fails at the moment),
   >> macports (next candidate) or homebrew (I am sceptical about that
   >> one since it does not rely on sudo)

   > I've never used fink. The binary shipped with Homebrew (by the `emacs`
   > formula) is solid; but it's not compiled with a window system. There are
   > other Homebrew taps that make building Emacs easy; like
   > https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus
   > and
   > https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport
   > which uses the `mac' window system port.


Ok homebrew was the last on my list because of its lack using sudo.
Did you try out macports?

   >> 4. Compile the latest master. This I want to do besides having an
   >> official GNU emacs.

   > This is what I use (and have been for quite some time). I use Homebrew
   > to get the dependencies (i.e. gnutls and jansson) and build from scratch
   > (in the emacs repo):

   > ./autogen.sh
   > ./configure --with-modules
   > make
   > make install


Hm I tried to compile it on fink but not with that option and it failed.
The fink version has problems with modifier keys (it relies on Xquartz,
so maybe I have to fiddle around with that).


Thanks

Uwe

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