Re: Alternatives for reliable build environments for emacs?

[Yuchen Pei <hi@ypei.me>]

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Yuchen Pei <hi@ypei.me>
>> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 11:29:39 +1100
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> 
>> I was trying to build emacs on a debian + guix system today. 
>> The 
>> debian is bare minimum, and guix is used as the main package 
>> manager.
>> 
>> Without `guix shell`, I got stuck at problem with gnutls:
>> 
>> > configure: error: The following required libraries were not 
>> > found:
>> >      gnutls
>> > Maybe some development libraries/packages are missing?
>> 
>> The version of gnutls installed by guix in the system is 
>> 3.6.15.
>
> It tells you to make sure you have all the development packages
> installed, and I think it's the accurate advice.  People build 
> Emacs
> with that version of GnuTLS without any problems.

I managed to resolve this by installing gnutls-dane.

>
>> With `guix shell --development emacs`, gnutls wasn't a problem, 
>> but I got stuck at segfault at bootstrap-emacs.pdmp:
>> 
>> > make[1]: *** [Makefile:858: bootstrap-emacs.pdmp] 
>> > Segmentation 
>> > fault
>> > make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/foo/source/emacs/src'
>> > make: *** [Makefile:450: src] Error 2
>
> If you want help in solving this problem, please submit a bug 
> report
> with all the details, including at least the configure command 
> and the
> full log of the build from the configure step till the segfault.
> config.log would also help.

This was resolved as in
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-10/msg02216.html>
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-10/msg02247.html>.

>
> Thanks.


-- 
Best,
Yuchen

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