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Re: Alternatives for reliable build environments for emacs?
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joakim |
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Re: Alternatives for reliable build environments for emacs? |
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Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:22:39 +0200 |
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Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>> 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?
Too new in Fedora(at the time before I threw in the towel at least).
>
> 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.
Well, I could likely build emacs just fine in a docker container using
debian as the base, and run the container in my host fedora os. I know
some people do this. This approach is also brittle with how to manage
the src tree for development.
>
> Robert
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Joakim Verona
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- Alternatives for reliable build environments for emacs?, joakim, 2021/10/28
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- Re: Alternatives for reliable build environments for emacs?, Pierre Téchoueyres, 2021/10/28
- Re: Alternatives for reliable build environments for emacs?, Yuchen Pei, 2021/10/28
- Re: Alternatives for reliable build environments for emacs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/29
Re: Alternatives for reliable build environments for emacs?, Yuri Khan, 2021/10/28