homebrew-emacs-plus: Install --with-native-comp fails

brew install emacs-plus@29 --with-native-comp fails with the error:

Error: invalid option: --with-native-comp

And a Usage message for brew install listing of options that does not include the options from the brewfile.

brew install emacs-plus@29 --with-native-nonsense fails with the error:

Error: invalid option: --with-native-nonsense

And a Usage message for brew install listing of options that does include the options from the brewfile.

Here’s a brew config; any ideas where I can look next to debug this? HOMEBREW_VERSION: 3.6.2-24-g3452176 ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew HEAD: 34521764a659fdce4861a2c1ff0662fe8186c446 Last commit: 5 hours ago Core tap ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core Core tap HEAD: cc6abf752cdff1737a9c3856ee86c0bcdd1add13 Core tap last commit: 2 hours ago Core tap branch: master HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /Users/bsniffen/homebrew HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY: /Users/bsniffen/homebrew HOMEBREW_CELLAR: /Users/bsniffen/homebrew/Cellar HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS: [] HOMEBREW_EDITOR: vim HOMEBREW_MAKE_JOBS: 10 Homebrew Ruby: 2.6.8 => /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/bin/ruby CPU: 10-core 64-bit arm_firestorm_icestorm Clang: 14.0.0 build 1400 Git: 2.37.0 => /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/git Curl: 7.79.1 => /usr/bin/curl macOS: 12.6-arm64 CLT: 14.0.0.0.1.1661618636 Xcode: N/A Rosetta 2: false

Thanks for your work on this amazingly useful project!

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Created 2 years ago
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@agzam as far as I remember, reinstall handles fetching of the latest master. But there are troubles if you are using any options, that’s why I advise to use combination of uninstall and install. That allows you to upgrade and properly propagate all options.

P.S. I feel like I need to taste this again, it’s possible that they fixed the old behaviour.

d12frosted on Sep 29, 2022

Thanks for the idea, but same error message. I did some more digging, and have a theory: brew was installing (upgrading) libgccjit, and the option was being passed to it also. Of course, it doesn’t support any options. That, in turn, has been failing because of a linker error; see https://github.com/iains/gcc-12-branch/issues/6 — but neither of these is your problem. It looks like a reasonable workaround for installing formulae with options is to install dependencies first without options, then install the formula with options.

I spent an hour looking at Brew code to see where options were being propagated to dependencies, but haven’t found it. Thanks for the support & for your work on this tap!

briansniffen on Sep 26, 2022

🤔 Might be some issue with brew. I will upgrade later this day and see what’s wrong.

d12frosted on Sep 23, 2022