Re: Alternatives for reliable build environments for emacs?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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.