Your luck might vary. Do note that it does not build a universal application. The CPU architecture of the built application will be that of the machine it was built on.

Why?

I've been using Homebrew the past few months to build from HEAD. Homebrew comes with the ns-toogle-fullscreen and sRGB patches which I use.

Homebrew does not build a self-contained application though, which caused issues for me when I needed to rollback to a specific build. I found the easiest way to build a completely self-contained Emacs.app nightly from a specific date with custom patches was to do it manually.

So I decided to quickly hack together a script to automate that manual process. The code is a horrible hack, but it (seemingly) works as I'm writing this in Emacs built with it.

Internals

I decided to pull Emacs' source from the GitHub mirror rather than the official Bzr repo cause I'm not familiar with Bzr, and GitHub lets you easily download tarballs of any commit.

The only option passed in ./configure is --with-ns, meaning the resulting application only supports the CPU architecture of the system is was built on. There might be more side-effects to.

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