Re: Alternatives for reliable build environments for emacs?

[Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>]

>>>>> On Thu, 28 Oct 2021 16:38:54 +0200, joakim@verona.se said:

    joakim> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
    >>> From: joakim@verona.se
    >>> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 14:55:27 +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?

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

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

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

    joakim> I could probably convince guix to do what I want, but guix is also
    joakim> fiddly. I was just wondering if somebody else had a solution for a
    joakim> reproducible development environment for emacs.

    joakim> Maybe I'm the only one facing these difficulties, that's fine I guess.

Debian has always worked ok for me. Although I donʼt target
reproducible builds.

Robert
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