On 2 August 2023 at 14:41, Ian Jackson wrote:
| Dirk Eddelbuettel writes ("Re: vm breakage with Emacs 29"):
| > On 2 August 2023 at 13:17, Ian Jackson wrote:
| > | Hi. Since you were helpful with #1039105 "Fails to start with Emacs
| > | 28" I thought I would draw your attention to #1042889
| > | "vm: autopkgtest fails against Emacs 29.1" [0]
| > |
| > | I won't have time to look at this until next week, probably. Any help
| > | or background research would be greatly appreciated. We need to fix
| > | this to avoid vm getting autoremoved.
| > |
| > | I did have a quick look at the test log [1] and the failure looks
| > | genuine. I suggest we do any further diagnosis in the bug.
| >
| > The band-aid I found and submitted for #1039105 (ie per Fedora's tracker,
| > "just do not byte compile") seems apt here, no? I still do not really read
| > (or, for that matter, write) elisp but it seems to complain about byte code.
| >
| > So I would try two things:
| > - turn off elisp byte compilation as in #1039105
|
| The patch from #1039105 is still in the package.
Ok.
| Do we need to add to a list of files in it, or something, do you
That was my hunch.
| think ? Maybe it would be best to disable byte compilation
| completely.
Yes given the previous bug report and fix ensuring no byte-compilation takes
place for vm may be best. At least until someone (upstream? another dev?)
understand why it breaks vm.
Dirk
|
| One thing that would be useful would be for someone to try out emacs
| and vm in a sid chroot; that would confirm that this isn't a spurious
| test failure (or confirm that it is).
|
| Thanks,
| Ian.
|
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