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bug#71729: Emacs 29.4 emergency bugfix release
From: |
Adam Porter |
Subject: |
bug#71729: Emacs 29.4 emergency bugfix release |
Date: |
Sat, 22 Jun 2024 19:52:16 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Mozilla Thunderbird |
Hello,
Today an emergency bugfix release was made of Emacs v29.4. It fixes an
important security vulnerability.
FWIW, I had hoped that I could install it by running:
guix install --with-version=emacs=29.4 emacs
But that fails the validate-comp-integrity phase, showing that all of
its tests fail, with every function being loaded in byte-compiled form
instead of native-compiled.
And despite my best efforts at comparing the emacs.git tags for 29.3 and
29.4 to look for any relevant changes, and digging through the relevant
source code, and scanning through the build logs, I can't find a cause
for this problem.
Is this failure expected? If so, is it something unique to the Emacs
packaging, and could it be fixed? (Before Emacs 28 was released, I was
able to use a similar "--with-commit" option to build and install what
was then the emacs-next package to get native-compilation support,
keeping it updated with Emacs's master branch at the time. It would be
helpful if that could still be used by users rather than having to wait
for an update to the package definition, especially in a case like this.)
Thanks for your work on Emacs in Guix.
--Adam
- bug#71729: Emacs 29.4 emergency bugfix release,
Adam Porter <=