bug#63742: closed (30.0.50; [BUG] package.el having a hard time)

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> 30.0.50; [BUG] package.el having a hard time
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> Sat, 27 May 2023 11:10:24 +0800
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> mu4e 1.9.22; emacs 30.0.50
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> Hello,
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> I have recompiled Emacs master yesterday, but this build has had a hard
> time processing my init.el file (saying that PKG-pkg.el files are not
> found, where they indeed are).  I wasn't able to reproduce this exact
> problem, but upon digging further, I found one issue which I can
> reproduce it reliably in -Q environment, and which is probably related
> to the other unreproducible issue.
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>     $ cd $(mktemp -d)
>     $ HOME=$PWD XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.config emacs -Q
>     M-x package-initialize RET
>     M-x list-packages RET
>     ;; And wait for it to finish listing packages from gnu and nongnu
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>     / n xr RET
>     ;; find some package to install, any package suffices
>     i x SPC
>     ;; Install it
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> Observe the error message shown in the minibuffer.  The following is the
> full message from trying to install the package.
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> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Packages to install: 1 (xr-1.23).  Proceed? (y or n) y
> Operation [ Install 1 ] started
> Setting ‘package-selected-packages’ temporarily since "emacs -q" would 
> overwrite customizations
> Contacting host: elpa.gnu.org:443 [2 times]
> Parsing tar file...done
> Extracting...done
>   INFO     Scraping files for loaddefs...done
>   GEN      xr-autoloads.el
> package-unpack: Wrong type argument: package-desc, nil
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
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> In GNU Emacs 30.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
>  3.24.38, cairo version 1.17.8) of 2023-05-26 built on ruijie
> Repository revision: bb7605c087006b714236165f88341545355d3673
> Repository branch: makepkg
> System Description: Arch Linux
>
> Configured using:
>  'configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib
>  --localstatedir=/var --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-gameuser=:games
>  --with-modules --without-libotf --without-m17n-flt --without-gconf
>  --enable-link-time-optimization --with-native-compilation=aot
>  --with-xinput2 --with-pgtk --without-xaw3d --with-sound=alsa
>  --with-tree-sitter '--program-transform-name=s/\([ec]tags\)/\1.emacs/'
>  'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions
>  -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security
>  -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection'
>  LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now'
>
> Configured features:
> ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG
> JSON LCMS2 LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER
> PGTK PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS
> TREE_SITTER WEBP XIM GTK3 ZLIB
>
> Important settings:
>   value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
>   value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=fcitx
>   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
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> -- 
> Best,
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> RY
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#63710: use-package not working Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2023 12:06:55 +0200

HI,

I was going to suggest it. I have rebuilt emacs w/native today and it seems to be stable. 

Thanks! /PA

On Mon, 5 Jun 2023 at 10:36, Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org> wrote:

Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org> writes:

> Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org> writes:
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>> Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org> writes:
>>
>>> Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <paaguti@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> First: the .emacs.d/init.el test file
>>>>
>>>> ------
>>>> ;;
>>>> ;; My .emacs file
>>>> ;;
>>>> (require 'package)
>>>> (setq package-archives '(("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/")
>>>> ("gnu" . "https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")
>>>>                          ("melpa-stable" . "https://stable.melpa.org/packages/")
>>>> ("nongnu" . "https://elpa.nongnu.org/nongnu/")))
>>>> (eval-when-compile
>>>>   (require 'use-package))
>>>> (unless (file-directory-p package-user-dir)
>>>>     (package-refresh-contents))
>>>> (require 'use-package-ensure)
>>>> (setq use-package-always-ensure t)
>>>>
>>>> (use-package "compat")
>>>> ------
>>>>
>>>> Second: 1d5b164109b59559d34c545c2a163fa067ca22b2 does work
>>>>
>>>> BTW,  it has to do with native compilation. I have accidentally not deleted the eln-cache in on of the tests and the
>>>> 'wrong' Emacs has started correctly:
>>>> 1. started 1d5b164109b59559d34c545c2a163fa067ca22b2 with eln-clean cache ---> OK
>>>> 2. started b2b2be98da5825e6bc130999ffe38f5ed615586a with eln-cache from the last start --> OK
>>>> 3. started b2b2be98da5825e6bc130999ffe38f5ed615586a with clean eln-cache ---> KO
>>>
>>>>From these SHA1s looks like there's good chance it's my fault...
>>>
>>> I'll have a look.
>>
>> Okay I did some investigation and understood the issue.
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>> `package-load-descriptor' was misscompiled and returning always nil as
>> the compiler was not fully picking up the user defined types at compile
>> time, it worked only after the first faulty compilation (thing that made
>> the investigaiton a bit slower).
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>> I'm working on a more complete fix but this requires careful testing, I
>> pushed now c8e527cbeee in order to have master stable again while I keep
>> working on the most comprehensive fix.
>
> Okay RE-sending from this account and ditching my sdf.org probably
> forever as I'm getting a bunch of bounces classifying it again as spam:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I pushed what I think is the final fix and reverted the temporary one.
>
> As of fbc96dcc4ea I'm not aware of any issue with package.el or other
> code.
>
> Please let us know if works for you and we can close the bug or, if any
> other issue arise (please remember to clean the eln-cache before testing
> as it may contain misscompiled code ;).

Okay one week passed since the fix was pushed and no more issues were
reported on this, so I'm closing it.  Happy to reopen in case.

BR

  Andrea

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