Thanks! I was missing the `--without-ns`. Works fine now.

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On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:

> "Guillaume J. Charmes" wrote:
>
> > When trying to install master from osx homebrew, it fails.
> > https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/41630#issuecomment-120743152
> >
> > It appears that the issue comes from emacs:
> >> make install isn't installing to the prefix passed to configure.
> >
> > To reproduce:
> > `brew install emacs --HEAD --with-ctags`.
>
> (As always, it would be lovely to get a self-contained bug report that
> describes what the problem is rather than referring to external sites.)
>
> Anyway, a default build on OS X is now a self-contained Cocoa app.
> 'make install' assembles the app in nextstep/Emacs.app.
> Copy that wherever you like. --prefix is ignored.
>
> If you prefer the old default X11 build, which treats --prefix in the
> standard way, configure --without-ns.
>
> This is all explained in NEWS and nextstep/INSTALL, AFAICS.
>