Re: Installing Emacs from source: the command `C-h v` for accessing variables doesn't work

[Itai Berli]

I meant Stefan... Sorry.

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 6:26 PM, Itai Berli <address@hidden> wrote:

Yeah, Steven. That was the problem. Thank you!

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 6:17 PM, Noam Postavsky <address@hiddennet> wrote:

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 10:09 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary
<address@hiddencom> wrote:
>
>> On Jul 18, 2017, at 22:43, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm sure someone else will give you a more definitive answer, but IIRC,
>>> the macOS build needs to be installed before it works right.
>>> I.e. you need "make install".
>>
>> Ha, found it: look at the nextstep/INSTALL file
>
> Indeed. I just tried with just "make" and I got what Ital described, so it is not connected to the environment variable issue that I mentioned...

I believe #27645 proposes to remove this quirk.
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=27645