Subject: Re: bug#53506: guix-packages-base.drv leads to segfault on i686-linux

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 22:12:50 +0200

Hi,

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Yes.  I just tried ‘guix pull -s i686-linux’ for commit
> e641d707e1ec8de2bfc658dcd1757360300aa509 and it passed!
>
> This is certainly due to the reduced heap usage in Guile 3.0.8.
> However, while building
> /gnu/store/87mqnqwxqbcidbx5bpyrq9xpxmhw1035-guix-packages-base.drv we’re
> still peaking at 2.6G resident—only 7% less than before (the packages
> files have probably grown in the meantime), so we cannot claim victory
> yet.

I’ve tried again and it went fine:

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$ guix pull -s i686-linux -p /tmp/i686-guix
Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
Authenticating channel 'guix', commits 9edb3f6 to 8f0d45c (7 new commits)...
Building from this channel:
  guix      https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git   8f0d45c
 ⋮
building /gnu/store/zd1i483p23hdz73hrqs63lgcdclk4aaq-guix-packages.drv...
 ⋮
hint: After setting `PATH', run `hash guix' to make sure your shell refers to
`/tmp/i686-guix/bin/guix'.

$ /tmp/i686-guix/bin/guix describe
Generation 1    Jul 18 2022 22:06:47    (current)
  guix 8f0d45c
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: master
    commit: 8f0d45ccac3f6cee69eba8de5e4ae5e5555f1a3d
$ /tmp/i686-guix/bin/guix repl -q
GNU Guile 3.0.8
Copyright (C) 1995-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Guile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `,show w'.
This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `,show c' for details.

Enter `,help' for help.
scheme@(guix-user)> %host-type
$1 = "i686-unknown-linux-gnu"
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<https://ci.guix.gnu.org/jobset/guix> and
<https://ci.guix.gnu.org/search?query=spec%3Aguix+system%3Ai686-linux>
seem to agree.

So, closing this issue!

Ludo’.