Re: Two problems on MacOS Catalina...

[Alan Third]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 11:17:03AM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Nov 2019 18:15:31 -0500 "Perry E. Metzger"
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Sun, 17 Nov 2019 19:19:16 +0000 Alan Third <address@hidden>
> > wrote:
> > > My first thought is to try "make bootstrap;make install" and then
> > > copy the Emacs.app directory again.
> >
> > I will try that and report back.
> 
> That works. But: it was never necessary to "make bootstrap" before to
> get a working emacs. What has changed, and can it be documented in
> INSTALL?

Sometimes it is necessary. I don’t know why but some changes to the
codebase have required ‘make bootstrap’ for as long as I’ve been
building Emacs. Usually a number of people post to emacs-dev asking
why they can’t build master any more.

> Also, I had to explicitly disable harfbuzz or the build gave me an
> error that it had detected but was not using it (whatever that
> meant).

That’s very strange. I have harfbuzz installed using brew and
configure is clever enough to ignore it.

Was this error before or after doing make bootstrap?
-- 
Alan Third