'build emacs and gnutls not found

I built emacs26 on Ubuntu16.04, when I executed ./config --prefix=/usr/local/emacs , it showed like this:

configure: error: The following required libraries were not found:
     gnutls
Maybe some development libraries/packages are missing?
If you don't want to link with them give
     --with-gnutls=no
as options to configure

I tried to solve this problem many times, but failed. Who can help me, thank you very much.

ubuntuemacs


Solution 1:[1]

The error message tells you two ways in which to solve your problem.

  1. Install the gnutls development package. You can find it by doing: apt-cache search 'libgnutls.*-dev', and then install it with apt-get.
  2. Link without gnutls, a la ./config --prefix=/usr/local/emacs --with-gnutls=no

Solution 2:[2]

The only thing that worked for me was installing pkg-config.

Solution 3:[3]

Fixed on CentOS:

yum install gnutls-devel

Solution 4:[4]

For me on Ubuntu 19.10 it was specifically "libgnutls28-dev", all others didn't work.

Solution 5:[5]

Actually this should not be too hard to fix. You didn't tell us what you have tried. What happens if you call ./configure --with-gnutls=no

Normally this is one possibility to work around this. Th other way would be to install libgnutls dev package. Just search for libgnutls with

apt-cache search libgnutls

and you should find the package. I am running Ubuntu 18.04 and on my side it is libgnutls28-dev.

Hope this helps.

Solution 6:[6]

This is how I installed gnutls on Ubuntu 16.04:

sudo apt-get install gnutls-bin

See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GnuTLS

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Solution 3 rocksfrow
Solution 4 oxioxi
Solution 5 Toby Speight
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