bug#51104: closed (comp-tests.elc messes up after reconfiguring for different machine)

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> comp-tests.elc messes up after reconfiguring for different machine
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> Fri, 8 Oct 2021 15:59:06 -0700
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> When trying out the emacs-28 branch on both 32- and 64-bit platforms, I 
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> test/src/comp-tests.el:933:       (integer ,most-negative-fixnum 
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> My problem was that I'd built test/src/comp-tests.elc on a 32-bit 
> platform (using "./configure CC='gcc -m32'" on an x86-64 machine) so 
> that .elc file had been built assuming 32-bit values for 
> most-negative-fixnum and most-positive fixnum. When I then re-ran 
> 'configure' for a 64-bit platform the .elc files were not automatically 
> rebuilt for it (they're supposed to be machine-independent, right?) and 
> so the optimizations were incorrect for a 64-bit platform and the tests 
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> What's a good way to fix this problem, while still testing everything 
> that comp-tests.el wants to test?
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#51104: comp-tests.elc messes up after reconfiguring for different machine Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 15:34:29 -0500 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.11.0

On 9/12/22 14:34, Andrea Corallo wrote:

Probably the quickest and easiest fix is just to add the
`no-byte-compile' into comp-tests.el.

Thanks for the suggestion. I installed the attached and am closing the bug report.

0001-Fix-comp-tests.el-problem-after-reconfiguring.patch
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