Re: Guile 3 and wip-elisp/Emacs

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi Gregg,

"Gregg Sangster" <gregg@thesangsters.ca> writes:

> I have wip-elisp rebased all the way up to main as of a few days 
> ago (e60469c8b6936575c079faaffa40a340e1d49f3c) plus two changes 
> from Ricardo.  It's available here:
>
> https://git.sr.ht/~g20r/guile

Excellent!

> There is one test failure in "make check" on test-out-of-memory. 
> I
> haven't investigated it yet but I get the same failure on main. 
> If
> that's not an expected failure, it might be a problem with my
> environment.
>
> There is also an emacs repo here:
>
> https://git.sr.ht/~g20r/emacs
>
> which uses the 3.0-based wip-elisp.  It builds and runs but 
> segfaults easily.  I've started rebasing it on a more current 
> emacs.  Those changes aren't published yet.

I also had he same experience.  Guile Emacs would segfault very 
quickly.  That’s why I started a rebase on top of the nearest 
Emacs release, which is 25.2.  I had to abandon the rebase, 
because after about 45 commits it became too difficult for me to 
understand what exactly I had to do to resolve all these 
conflicts.  There are about 112 commits left to apply.

If you think you could benefit from the work I already did I could 
upload the full git repo as it is, mid-rebase and all.

> I haven't been able to get the guile-emacs package in guix 
> working.
> The build gets stuck at collecting/processing OKURI-NASI entries 
> after
> a few hours.  For comparison, the 3.0-based guile-emacs builds 
> in
> about 20 minutes on my machine.  If anyone has that running, it 
> would
> be nice to have a comparison of the build/run speed.

I only got the 2.x-based Guile Emacs to build.  Haven’t tried with 
3.x because I had not dared rebase beyond 2.2.

--
Ricardo