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From: Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com>
Subject: bug#39699: [core-updates] gash-boot0 fails on i686-linux
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 09:18:55 -0500
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To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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Hi Ludo,

Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Bootstrap fails early on i686-linux when trying to build gash-boot0,
>> which fails thusly:
>
> [...]
>
>>    ?: 1 [primitive-load-path "compression/bzip2" ...]
>> In compression/bzip2.scm:
>>   45: 0 [#<procedure 8499a10 ()>]
>>
>> compression/bzip2.scm:45:18: In procedure #<procedure 8499a10 ()>:
>> compression/bzip2.scm:45:18: ERROR: R6RS exception:
>>   1. &error
>>   2. &who: bzip2
>>   3. &message: "This module requires at least 32-bit fixnums"
>>   4. &irritants: ()
>> command "tar" "xvf" "/gnu/store/bspn36jhcd2ky6ih7wnh9z0iz867flc2-gash-0.=
2.0.tar.gz" failed with status 1
>
> The error comes from the (compression bzip2) module included in
> =E2=80=9Cbootar=E2=80=9D.
>
> I can see two solutions:
>
>   1. Remove bzip2 support from bootar (it=E2=80=99s not actually needed, =
is it?).
>
>   2. Modify (compression bzip2) so that it errors out on first use
>      rather than at load time.
>
> Timothy, janneke, WDYT?

Both of those are good options.  The 32-bit fixnum limit is a something
of a development artifact.  I think I can remove it without problems.
If not, I will just remove BZip2 support for now, since I think you=E2=80=
=99re
right that we don=E2=80=99t use it.

Sorry for the little hiccup!


-- Tim