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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>, 50985@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50985: Merging gnulib for Emacs 28.1?
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2021 09:23:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lf36wr92.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <beffdfbd-6f83-0339-7315-b96ab7daf7c6@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Tue, 5 Oct 2021 09:16:13 -0700")

>>>>> On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 09:16:13 -0700, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> said:

    Paul> On 10/5/21 7:11 AM, Robert Pluim wrote:
    >> Probably. When it comes to gnulib I prefer to leave it to people who
    >> know what theyʼre doing :-)

    Paul> We can't wait for *that* (:-), so I charged ahead and installed the
    Paul> attached patches into the emacs-28 branch. This fixed the md5_stream
    Paul> issue for me.

Your patch just proves my point: mine was less minimal than it could
have been because I made a mistake in adding crypto/af_alg, then
removing it, and thus having an excessive addition to AVOIDED_MODULES.

    Paul> The key issue here is whether Emacs wants to use cryptography
    Paul> algorithms supported by the Linux kernel, if available. I expect that
    Paul> Emacs doesn't want to bother, because its use of md5_stream is not
    Paul> that performance- or security-relevant and because if we wanted Emacs
    Paul> to use the kernel stuff that'd drag in a lot more Gnulib modules which
    Paul> would be more trouble than it's worth. Comments welcome of course,
    Paul> since this is a judgment call.

Seems sound to me. --with-native-compilation works for me now on
GNU/Linux.

    Paul> I hadn't run into this earlier because I was doing a default
    Paul> configure+build, which on my platform didn't use native compilation.

I donʼt think any platform does native compilation by default (yet?).

Robert
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-06  7:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-03  3:42 bug#50985: Merging gnulib for Emacs 28.1? Stefan Kangas
2021-10-03 19:37 ` Paul Eggert
2021-10-04  6:37   ` Paul Eggert
2021-10-04 12:19     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-04 22:26       ` Paul Eggert
2021-10-04 23:18       ` Andy Moreton
2021-10-04 23:44         ` Andy Moreton
2021-10-05 12:44           ` Ken Brown
2021-10-05 12:59           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-05 12:58         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-05 13:44           ` Robert Pluim
2021-10-05 14:09             ` Ken Brown
2021-10-05 14:11               ` Robert Pluim
2021-10-05 16:16                 ` Paul Eggert
2021-10-05 18:15                   ` Andy Moreton
2021-10-06  7:23                   ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2021-10-05 16:19               ` Paul Eggert
2021-10-07  9:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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