Some time ago I started exploring Alpine Linux[a].
... I do like the fact that I can have a Linux system without python and perl and translations and a whole lot of other geek and automatic things.
/en/2021/20211023-alpine-vger.gmi
Then I set out to compile emacs 29 from source. You might see, where this is going. Of course you need quite a bit of stuff, to make emacs compile. On Debian I use "apt-get build-dep emacs-gtk" to get there. For Alpine Linux I took inspiration from the aports details of emacs[b]. With that information available things worked remarkably well:
apk add autoconf automake linux-headers gawk ncurses-dev \
ncurses-libs gnutls-dev gmp-dev jansson-dev harfbuzz-dev \
glib-dev fontconfig-dev libpng-dev \
librsvg-dev giflib-dev libxpm-dev gtk+3.0-dev alsa-lib-dev \
libxml2-dev pango-dev tiff-dev libjpeg-turbo-dev libxaw-dev \
texinfo
mkdir Source
cd Source
git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git
cd emacs
./autogen.sh
./configure --with-pgtk --without-makeinfo --with-harfbuzz --with-json --with-gpm
time make -j8
doas make install
Needless to say
And these things make me gaze in awe! I mean, emacs is not a small piece of software. And it just compiled. Yay!
However, looking at the fairly impressive list of build dependencies one might wonder, whether my initially smol Alpine Linux is not so smol any more, after all. No, I did not invest time to find out, how to squeeze a few MegaByte from this adventure.
Cheers,
~ew