Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org> writes:

> Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org> writes:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> `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).
>>
>> 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