On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 12:59:08PM +0200, Adam Kandur via wrote:
> hi everyone! tried to build emacs in guix env
> 
> here is my manifest:
> ----------------------------------
> (specifications->manifest
>  '("make"
>    "gcc-toolchain"
>    "gnutls"
>    "ncurses"
>    "mailutils"
>    "libx11"
>    "gtk+"
>    "libxft"
>    "libtiff"
>    "giflib"
>    "libjpeg"
>    "imagemagick"
>    "acl"
>    "libpng"
>    "zlib"
>    "librsvg"
>    "libxpm"
>    "libxml2"
>    "libice"
>    "libsm"
>    "alsa-lib"
>    "dbus"
>    "libotf"
>    "m17n-lib"))
> during configuration i got this error:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> checking for xaw3d... no
> checking for libXaw... configure: error: No X toolkit could be found.
> If you are sure you want Emacs compiled without an X toolkit, pass
>   --with-x-toolkit=no
> to configure.  Otherwise, install the development libraries for the toolkit
> that you want to use (e.g. Gtk+) and re-run configure.
> maybe somebody had same problem?

I would suggest adding pkg-config to the list of packages. Alternatively
you can try using 'guix environment emacs' to get the inputs that guix
uses in the build environment when building emacs.

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