bug#59340: 29.0.50; Latest Emacs from master gives various native compilation errors

[Akib Azmain Turja]

Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org> writes:

> Akib Azmain Turja via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife
> of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
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>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
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>>>> From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
>>>> Cc: 59340@debbugs.gnu.org
>>>> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 17:39:11 +0600
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>>>> > 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.

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