Re: Alternatives for reliable build environments for emacs?

[Yuchen Pei]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> > From: Yuchen Pei <hi@ypei.me>
> > Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 11:29:39 +1100
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >
> > 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.
>
> It tells you to make sure you have all the development packages
> installed, and I think it's the accurate advice.  People build 
> Emacs
> with that version of GnuTLS without any problems.

I managed to resolve this by installing gnutls-dane.

> > 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
>
> If you want help in solving this problem, please submit a bug 
> report
> with all the details, including at least the configure command 
> and the
> full log of the build from the configure step till the segfault.
> config.log would also help.

This was resolved as in
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-10/msg02216.html>
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-10/msg02247.html>.

> Thanks.


--
Best,
Yuchen

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