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

[Uwe Brauer]

   > Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:


   > I think the easiest approach is to use homebrew. You have at least 3
   > options with homebrew. There is the basic emacs recipe, which will build
   > 27.1 by default, there is a pre-built 'cask' version which will just
   > install it and then there are additional casks, like the rallycat/emacs
   > cask which will install a pre-built macport version of 27.1 (which is
   > what I use and find it really successful).


Thanks
   > Nice thing about homebrew is that it can install all the dependencies
   > you need to build on the mac, like gnutls and libraries for svg etc.

   > If your going to build from sources directly via a pull from the repo, I
   > don't think you want the x-toolkit stuff. The mac doesn't include an X
   > server anymore (you have to install XQuartz if you want an X server).
   > Probably what you need is the ns libraries.

I have XQuartz installed via fink but it turns out I will need to fiddle
the modifies (at least the fink version of emacs)


   > Personally, I would go with homebrew and the emacs recipe or the
   > rallycat cask and the macports Emacs it installs (Emacs 27.1).

I might  give also emacsforosx a try

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