GNU Emacs 32.0 on FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE

Building and validating GNU Emacs 32.0.50 (development master) from source on FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE (amd64) with maximum features: native compilation via libgccjit, tree-sitter, Cairo rendering, GTK3, Org 9.8.6, and full image/crypto support. This replaces the pkg-installed Emacs 30.2.

A comprehensive test suite is included as test-suite.el. Run it with:

./src/emacs -Q --batch -l test-suite.el 2>&1

=== Emacs 32.0 FreeBSD 15.0 Test Suite ===

Emacs: 32.0.50
System: berkeley-unix x86_64-unknown-freebsd15.0
Date: 2026-06-14 12:07:51

--- Core Functionality ---
  json-round-trip                     PASS
  json-parse-array                    PASS
  sqlite-create-insert-select         PASS
  sqlite-transaction                  PASS
  libxml-parse-html                   PASS
  libxml-parse-xml                    PASS
  gnutls-available                    PASS
  process-execution                   PASS
  file-notification-api               PASS
  regexp-engine                       PASS

--- Native Compilation ---
  native-comp-available               PASS
  native-comp-lambda                  PASS
  native-comp-defun                   PASS

--- Threading ---
  thread-basic                        PASS
  thread-mutex                        PASS

--- Tree-sitter ---
  treesit-api-available               PASS
  treesit-parser-api                  PASS
  treesit-node-api                    PASS

--- Org Mode ---
  org-version-check                   PASS
  org-html-export                     PASS
  org-latex-export                    PASS
  org-table-align                     PASS
  org-babel-elisp                     PASS
  org-element-parse                   PASS

--- Image Support ---
  image-svg                           PASS
  image-webp                          PASS
  image-png                           PASS
  image-jpeg                          PASS
  image-tiff                          PASS
  image-gif                           PASS
  image-xpm                           PASS

--- Dynamic Modules ---
  module-suffix                       PASS
  module-load-api                     PASS

--- D-Bus ---
  dbus-binding                        PASS

--- Cairo ---
  cairo-available                     PASS

--- Elisp Standard Library ---
  seq-library                         PASS
  map-library                         PASS
  cl-lib-basics                       PASS
  subr-x-extras                       PASS
  transient-available                 PASS
  project-available                   PASS
  eglot-available                     PASS
  use-package-available               PASS

=== Summary ===

Total: 43  Passed: 43  Failed: 0

Result: ALL PASS

The bundled Org version is 9.8.6, the latest stable release, synced from upstream at commit 0bfbe06090c. This is maintained directly in the Emacs source tree at lisp/org/ (not a submodule).

./src/emacs -Q --batch --eval '(progn (require (quote org)) (princ (org-version)))'

9.8.6

Native compilation (--with-native-compilation) uses GCC 14's libgccjit to compile Emacs Lisp to native machine code at runtime. This provides significant performance improvements for compute-heavy Elisp.

ls ~/.emacs.d/eln-cache/32.0.50-*/ 2>/dev/null | wc -l

37

The cache builds asynchronously on first use. Mode line may show "Building…" messages during initial sessions.

Tree-sitter provides incremental parsing for syntax highlighting, indentation, and structural navigation. Language grammars must be installed separately:

;; Install a tree-sitter grammar (e.g., for Python)
(setq treesit-language-source-alist
      '((python "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-python")
        (javascript "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-javascript")
        (typescript "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-typescript"
                    "typescript/src")
        (json "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-json")
        (yaml "https://github.com/nickel-lang/tree-sitter-nickel")
        (bash "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-bash")
        (c "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-c")
        (cpp "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-cpp")
        (rust "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-rust")
        (go "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-go")))

;; Then: M-x treesit-install-language-grammar RET python RET

Screenshots were captured using Xvfb (virtual framebuffer):

# Start headless X11
Xvfb :99 -screen 0 1280x1024x24 &

# Launch Emacs
DISPLAY=:99 ./src/emacs -Q --eval '...' &
sleep 4

# Capture via xwd + netpbm
DISPLAY=:99 xwd -root -out /tmp/emacs.xwd
xwdtopnm /tmp/emacs.xwd | pnmtopng > screenshot.png

# Clean up
kill $(pgrep -f Xvfb)

Requires: pkg install xorg-vfbserver xwd netpbm

echo "=== Full System Info ==="
echo "OS: $(uname -srm)"
echo "Emacs: $(./src/emacs --version 2>&1 | head -1)"
echo "Org: $(./src/emacs -Q --batch --eval '(progn (require (quote org)) (princ (org-version)))' 2>&1)"
echo "GCC: $(gcc14 --version 2>&1 | head -1)"
echo "GTK: $(pkg-config --modversion gtk+-3.0 2>&1)"
echo "Tree-sitter: $(pkg-config --modversion tree-sitter 2>&1)"
echo "Cairo: $(pkg-config --modversion cairo 2>&1)"
echo "GnuTLS: $(pkg-config --modversion gnutls 2>&1)"
echo "SQLite: $(pkg-config --modversion sqlite3 2>&1)"

=== Full System Info ===
OS: FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE amd64
Emacs: GNU Emacs 32.0.50
Org: 9.8.6
GCC: gcc14 (FreeBSD Ports Collection) 14.2.0
GTK: 3.24.52
Tree-sitter: 0.26.7
Cairo: 1.18.2
GnuTLS: 3.8.13
SQLite: 3.50.4

Upgrading from Emacs 30.2 (pkg) to 32.0 (source) brings significant changes across three release cycles.

• GNU Emacs
• Org Mode
• Org Mode Compact Guide (PDF)
• FreeBSD 15.0 Release Notes
• FreeBSD 15.0 Upgrade Notes
• Tree-sitter
• GCC JIT (libgccjit)