Re: Alternatives for reliable build environments for emacs?

[Pierre Téchoueyres]

Le jeudi 28 oct. 2021 à 16:38, joakim@verona.se a écrit :

> 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.
>
Could you elaborate on what's didn't work when you build Emacs with the
library provided by the Fedora package manager, please ?

For what it worth :
Here I'm on Fedora 34, building Emacs regularly from GIT (branches
27/28/master) and everything is working as expected. I could update
packages, use gnus with gmane, use elfeed etc.

"Here it's work" ™ © Me :-)

> 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.