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| From: | Charles A. Roelli |
| Subject: | Re: Installing Emacs from source: the command `C-h v` for accessing variables doesn't work |
| Date: | Tue, 18 Jul 2017 22:31:47 +0200 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 |
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.
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