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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2022 12:03:39 +0200

> From: Thierry Volpiatto <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [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).

It is not wrong, it just assumes a well-configured system, where shared
libraries live in a sensible place.