Subject: Re: bug#48335: Emacs is broken

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2021 10:28:58 -0400

Hello Xinglu,

Xinglu Chen <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Fri, May 21 2021, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Xinglu Chen <[email-masked]> writes:
>>
>>> ~/src/guix $ guix environment --ad-hoc emacs -- emacs --version
>>> The following derivation will be built:
>>>    /gnu/store/js53a7lydr66bk3wpwkaj1j8j43mirrm-profile.drv
>>>
>>> building CA certificate bundle...
>>> listing Emacs sub-directories...
>>> building fonts directory...
>>> generating GLib schema cache...
>>> creating GTK+ icon theme cache...
>>> building cache files for GTK+ input methods...
>>> building directory of Info manuals...
>>> building database for manual pages...
>>> building XDG desktop file cache...
>>> building XDG MIME database...
>>> building profile with 1 package...
>>> /gnu/store/gbzd8hc6360vaxmk2xh5bzkx7dkkwl8q-profile/bin/emacs:
>>> error while loading shared libraries: libm17n-core.so.0: cannot
>>> open shared object file: No such file or directory

[...]

Using the same commit you were using last,
652a03888e1609bd1a687326760436867fe2abb7, I can obtain the same Emacs
(same store hash):

$ guix time-machine --commit=652a03888e1609bd1a687326760436867fe2abb7 -- environment --ad-hoc emacs
[env]$ which emacs
/gnu/store/gbzd8hc6360vaxmk2xh5bzkx7dkkwl8q-profile/bin/emacs

Have you tried it in a container, like so:

$ guix time-machine --commit=652a03888e1609bd1a687326760436867fe2abb7 \
  -- environment -C --ad-hoc emacs -- emacs --version

to ensure there are no contaminants from your host.

Perhaps NixOS, being similar to Guix, is somehow interfering?

Maxim