Subject: bug#59532: 28.2; Unable to build emacs with tree-sitter installed

From: Thierry Volpiatto <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2022 07:59:21 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> From: Thierry Volpiatto <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: [email-masked]
>> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 10:47:08 +0000
>> 
>> > Then I think you need to tweak tree-sitter's Makefile, or use "make install
>> > PREFIX=/SOME/DIRECTORY", to install the shared libraries and header files
>> > where the rest of them are installed on your system.  In any case, so that
>> > the shared libraries end up in a directory that the dynamic linker scans for
>> > shared libraries on your system.
>> 
>> Yes, of course I can do that but it seems weird that ./configure locate
>> these files and make doesn't, isn't it?
>
> The configure script doesn't run any programs, it only tries to compile and
> link them.  By contrast, the build process does run Emacs, and that requires
> to find the library (if the Lisp code processed by temacs needs to call the
> library).

So the documentation in emacs/admin/notes/tree-sitter/starter-guide is
wrong (* Building Emacs with tree-sitter).

-- 
Thierry