GNU bug report logs - #59340
29.0.50; Latest Emacs from master gives various native compilation errors

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Akib Azmain Turja <akib <at> disroot.org>

Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 19:10:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.0.50

Done: Andrea Corallo <acorallo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib <at> disroot.org>
To: 59340 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: eliz <at> gnu.org, akrl <at> sdf.org
Subject: bug#59340: 29.0.50; Latest Emacs from master gives various native compilation errors
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 23:00:00 +0600
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Akib Azmain Turja via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife
of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Andrea Corallo <akrl <at> sdf.org> writes:
>
>> Akib Azmain Turja via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife
>> of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> writes:
>>
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>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>>>
>>>>> From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib <at> disroot.org>
>>>>> Cc: 59340 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>>>>> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 17:39:11 +0600
>>>>>=20
>>>>> > Does this happen _after_ you build Emacs?  That is, you are saying
>>>>> > that the *.eln files produced as part of the Emacs build were compiled
>>>>> > successfully, but when you then start the Emacs you built, it is
>>>>> > unable to perform any native compilation?
>>>>>=20
>>>>> Yes, Emacs builds fine.  The problem occurs at runtime.
>>>>
>>>> That is very strange, because we invoke libgccjit and Binutils during
>>>> the build the same we do at run time.  Is this in "emacs -Q"?  If not,
>>>> perhaps some of your customizations prevent Emacs from finding and/or
>>>> invoking the JIT compiler?
>>>
>>> I think this is not an Emacs bug really.  The Guix recipe I'm using
>>> has some big problems (according to Guix philosophy), and probably does
>>> some (black) magic that causes the build and run-time environment to be
>>> different, thus the error.
>>>
>>> However, why the crash?  Is it somehow because the old eln get loaded?
>>
>> Are you sure Emacs is crashing?  That would be surprising to me, maybe
>> is because of something with EXWM that gets stuck for some other reason?
>>
>>   Andrea
>
> I am sure, because instead of running emacs from my .xsession, I ran
> xterm and ran emacs with xterm.  The result was, sometimes the Emacs
> aborted, and sometimes segfault.

I have fixed it!

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