Re: ./configure --with-native-compilation on macos (11.5.2 Big Sur)

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On Aug 18, 2021, at 4:45, Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 09:59:48AM +0900, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Aug 17, 2021, at 2:18, Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 03:10:13PM +0900, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
>>>> On a recently checked out master branch I keep bumping into this error 
>>>> message:
>>>> 
>>>> checking for gcc_jit_context_acquire in -lgccjit... no
>>>> configure: error: ELisp native compiler was requested, but libgccjit was 
>>>> not found.
>>>> Please try installing libgccjit or a similar package.
>>>> 
>>>> even though I have installed, reinstalled and reinstalled from source said 
>>>> libgccjit (with brew).
>>>> 
>>>> I guess there is something trivial I need to do to fix that, but I can't 
>>>> figure it out.
>>> 
>>> Can you please run:
>>> 
>>>   find `brew --prefix --installed libgccjit 2>/dev/null`/ -name \*.so
>>> 
>>> and let us know what the result is?
>> 
>> Et voilà:
>> 
>> /usr/local/opt/libgccjit//lib/gcc/11/libgccjit.so
> 
> Unfortunately that's what I was expecting...
> 
> Can you try the attached patch and see if it makes any difference?

Thank you Alan.

It worked. I was able to configure/make and install emacs.

Launch seems a bit faster (I guess that's one intended consequence of the 
development).


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