Re: Alternatives for reliable build environments for emacs?

[Yuchen Pei]

joakim@verona.se writes:

> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> The separate aproach of building all the dependencies emacs need 
> in a
> separate build environment does work, like the Guix aproach.
>
> I could probably convince guix to do what I want, but guix is 
> also
> fiddly. I was just wondering if somebody else had a solution for 
> a
> reproducible development environment for emacs.
>
> Maybe I'm the only one facing these difficulties, that's fine I 
> guess.

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.

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

On an Arch system where I used to be able to build emacs, it 
doesn't build either, and the error is about Recursive load in 
international/mule-cmds.el.  I haven't looked into this error 
because it is a slow system and I'd rather build emacs on the 
debian + guix system.

--
Best,
Yuchen

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