branch: externals/xeft
commit 924d0c9bc2b6a666a3819447172c9139561ae209
Author: Yuan Fu <[email protected]>
Commit: Yuan Fu <[email protected]>
; * README.md: Mention Snap tip.
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@@ -93,6 +93,19 @@ I can’t test it but on windows you can get msys2 and
`mingw-w64-x86_64-xapian-core` and `make` should just work. Thanks to
pRot0ta1p for reporting this.
+If you’re using Emacs from Snap, you need to use the gcc bundled with
+the snap package. Try setting `xeft-compile-args` before invoking
+`xeft`:
+
+``` elisp
+(setq xeft-compile-args
+ '("PREFIX=/snap/emacs/current"
+ "CXX=/snap/emacs/current/usr/bin/g++-10 --sysroot /snap/emacs/current/"))
+```
+
+Thanks to fapdash for this tip and alexmurray for adding xapian to
+Emacs’ Snap bundle!
+
# notdeft
I owe many thanks to the author of notdeft. I don’t really know C++ or
