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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: joakim@verona.se
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Alternatives for reliable build environments for emacs?
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2021 02:52:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1mgiES-0005KV-It@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bl39cnr4.fsf@tanaka.verona.se> (joakim@verona.se)

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  > I'm finding it increasingly difficult to build emacs in my distro,
  > Fedora(Ok, I havent managed to build emacs using distro dependencies for
  > a long time)

  > In my case one of the problems that started the downward spiral
  > was the versions shipped of gnutls in fedora which didnt work with
  > emacs.

  > > Thatʼs the first Iʼve heard of it. GnuTLS too old, too new, something else?

  > Too new in Fedora(at the time before I threw in the towel at least).

We want to keep Emacs's build procedure working properly on all the systems
it is supposed to support.  Would you please help us do that, by sending
detailed bug reports about each problem that you encounter?

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-30  6:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-28 12:55 Alternatives for reliable build environments for emacs? joakim
2021-10-28 13:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-28 14:38   ` joakim
2021-10-28 14:45     ` Robert Pluim
2021-10-28 15:22       ` joakim
2021-10-28 15:29         ` Robert Pluim
2021-10-28 19:09           ` Tassilo Horn
2021-10-29  6:14         ` Po Lu
2021-10-28 16:08     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-28 17:37       ` joakim
2021-10-28 20:37     ` Pierre Téchoueyres
2021-10-29  0:29     ` Yuchen Pei
2021-10-29  6:14       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-03  6:53         ` Yuchen Pei
2021-10-28 16:07 ` Yuri Khan
2021-10-28 20:20   ` Daniel Martín
2021-10-28 19:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-28 19:58   ` Tim Cross
2021-10-28 21:35   ` joakim
2021-10-30  6:52 ` Richard Stallman [this message]

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