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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: joakim@verona.se
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Alternatives for reliable build environments for emacs?
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 19:08:58 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pmrprv1h.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871r45ciyp.fsf@tanaka.verona.se> (joakim@verona.se)

> From: joakim@verona.se
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 16:38:54 +0200
> 
> >> 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)
> >
> > Why? what are the difficulties?
> 
> 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.

Which version of GnuTLS was that?

And what was the rest of the spiral?

> The separate aproach of building all the dependencies emacs need in a
> separate build environment does work, like the Guix aproach.

I'd say build all the dependencies that aren't already available, yes.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-28 16:08 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 [this message]
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

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