How to build Emacs29 with tree-sitter without sudo

Question

Here are the commands I'm running

First I install tree-sitter

make PREFIX=${HOME}/.tree-sitter
make PREFIX=${HOME}/.tree-sitter install

This populates ~/.tree-sitter directory

├── include
│   └── tree_sitter
│       └── api.h
└── lib
    ├── libtree-sitter.a
    ├── libtree-sitter.so -> libtree-sitter.so.0.0
    ├── libtree-sitter.so.0 -> libtree-sitter.so.0.0
    ├── libtree-sitter.so.0.0
    └── pkgconfig
        └── tree-sitter.pc

Then I install emacs

wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-29.1.tar.gz
tar -xf emacs-29.1.tar.gz
cd emacs-29.1

TREE_SITTER_CFLAGS=-I~/.tree-sitter/include TREE_SITTER_LIBS="-L~/.tree-sitter/lib -ltree-sitter" ./configure --prefix=${HOME}/emacs --bindir=${HOME}/.local/bin --with-tree-sitter --with-gnutls=ifavailable

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/.tree-sitter/lib make install

And the last install command errors out with

  CC       emacs.o
In file included from emacs.c:142:
treesit.h:27:10: fatal error: tree_sitter/api.h: No such file or directory
   27 | #include <tree_sitter/api.h>

Answer 1

Why are you not using documented approach? eg

./configure --with-x-toolkit=lucid --with-tree-sitter --with-native-compilation

then

make -j$(nproc)

and finally sudo to install into usr/local

sudo make install

treesitter is included in 29 afaik.