From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Possibly defaulting native-compile-target-directory to XDG_CACHE_HOME/... Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2022 14:08:58 +0200 Message-ID: <83y1r6grl1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <871qozyj6i.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23230"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Rob Browning Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 17 13:09:49 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1p6W0i-0005oq-J4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2022 13:09:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p6Vzs-0007ZY-No; Sat, 17 Dec 2022 07:08:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p6Vzr-0007ZJ-EF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2022 07:08:55 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p6Vzq-0004rV-CN; Sat, 17 Dec 2022 07:08:54 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=b6lhgnznW7B64GYTmwEb7ijBuDYS1NxQzmbAxCUHp/g=; b=S8gWfeeW3E6Y Cg3/0xMlWJ0ZgYS1z1UaTkUWnz6UmXCH4Q8GDR5qh1KrdUAFYXM2ofU1cNTyPEr01v9RVUbo1F22n Zdk888xRN/BIBclXsLpaNEzPMIjCF8jja8J5MuQC/kOtbwZ7DplzsMd7LG5py88MdXcGb5wqAQ++1 5cvKYl3etbapG5kfjGhu443s92i2a3Fq+WkOaHFyh6LIGtILiAxKhCqvCLcvC7606Q3YPiGCrUZKL igg/4lAQPWDkAQHpJ25UmIaGeoDVmJ5PNeYjxbilqXb16oAMDfpDwZPFRyvlqV5m5wpYaoQWa0F1Q 1b9l12KlGfqwX0J/0QHUvw==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p6Vzp-0006An-Jt; Sat, 17 Dec 2022 07:08:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: <871qozyj6i.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> (message from Rob Browning on Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:08:37 -0600) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:301557 Archived-At: > From: Rob Browning > Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:08:37 -0600 > > > We're still trying to resolve some native compilation related crashes in > Debian in the hope that we'll be able to have 28 in the next stable > release --with-native-compilation. (Stage one of the freeze begins on > Jan 12.) > > One remaining issue is that emacs crashes when HOME=/nope in some of our > test suites and perhapssome other packaging or install-related > activities. For example: https://bugs.debian.org/1021842 > > (To refresh, Debian policies require packages not to write outside of a > few specified locations in certain situations, e.g. package builds, and > HOME is not one of the specified locations.) > > I can't recall from previous discussions whether that crash would be > considered a bug, or whether emacs just requires a writable cache dir > now (which is fine if so). The latter, AFAIU.