Re: Guile 3 and wip-elisp/Emacs

[Robin Templeton]

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

> Hello,
>
> 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
>
> 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.

It's not a good sign that it segfaults easily; Someone(TM) should figure
out the source of the crashes even if rebasing happens to fix them,
which I wouldn't necessarily count on. I'll try to do some debugging in
the next few days.

> 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 can confirm that, it seems to get stuck at:

Reading file "/tmp/guix-build-[...]/[...]/leim/SKK-DIC/SKK-JISYO.L" ...
[...]
Collecting OKURI-NASI entries ...
[...]
collected 70% ...

even after running for quite a while:

guix build -c32 guile-emacs  5.29s user 0.47s system 0% cpu 28:02:53.21 total

I'm not sure what's going on here, as I've definitely installed the
guile-emacs package before (though not recently) and it doesn't use the
standard emacs and guile packages, for obvious reasons. I can probably
use guix time-machine to figure out what's happening. That build phase
was always excruciatingly slow, but not *that* slow.

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