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30.1; macOS dictation used to work with Emacs < 30.1

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From: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
To: Charles Choi <kickingvegas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>, 76765 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#76765: 30.1; macOS dictation used to work with Emacs < 30.1
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 18:34:58 -0400

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On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM Charles Choi <kickingvegas <at> gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was able to reproduce functioning voice dictation with the 29.4 build
>>>> from https://emacsformacosx.com/builds
>>>>
>>>> Installing from
>>>> https://emacsformacosx.com/emacs-builds/Emacs-29.4-universal.dmg
>>>
>>>
>>> Got it.  I see it does work for me.  (I stopped using that distro last
>>> year because it's slow and buggy in other ways.). That's perfect as I can
>>> try to analyze it now.  I'm curious, perhaps morbidly so.
>>>
>>> Thank you for that.  I also verified that his 30.1 build does not take
>>> dictation, should it be a difference in compilation by the distro producers.
>>>
>>> I'll dig this afternoon for a bit.
>>>
>>
>> David's build script hasn't changed in months so it ain't that.  Looking
>> deeper now.
>>
>
> This looks like a build-time toolchain issue and it will take some further
> investigation.
>

Making some progress.  Definitely a toolchain issue and nothing to do with
Emacs source code, per se.  I was able to build a 29.4 that accepts
dictation and working through getting a 30.1 to work.  After that, I'll see
if I can work up some documentation and some recommendations.

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