bug#65482: [PATCH 0/3] gnu: racket: Update to 8.10.

[Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>]

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On Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 05:21:54PM -0400, Philip McGrath wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 9/4/23 10:17, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 02, 2023 at 09:59:23PM -0400, Philip McGrath wrote:
> > > tags 65482 + security
> > > quit
> > > 
> > > On 8/23/23 20:05, Philip McGrath wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > In addition to updating Racket to 8.10, this patch series backports fixes
> > > > merged upstream for rktboot on architectures other than x86_64 and removes
> > > > a corresponding workaround from the Guix packaging.
> > > > 
> > > > [...]
> > 
> > Sorry for just getting to this now. As far as it working on riscv64, the
> > test suite for racket didn't pass before, so there's no real possibility
> > of regression on Guix's end. Currently it fails while building
> > chez-scheme-for-racket-9.9.9-pre-release.17, but if upstream didn't
> > notice then that's something else.
> > 
> > starting phase `configure'
> > source directory: "/tmp/guix-build-chez-scheme-for-racket-9.9.9-pre-release.17.drv-0/source/racket/src/ChezScheme" (relative from build: "../ChezScheme")
> > build directory: "/tmp/guix-build-chez-scheme-for-racket-9.9.9-pre-release.17.drv-0/source/racket/src/build"
> > configure flags: ("--disable-x11" "--threads" "-m=trv64le" "--installcsug=/gnu/store/c66pkyb1kvbi0jn1shanxrzbjvfqjmqf-chez-scheme-for-racket-9.9.9-pre-release.17-doc/share/doc/chez-scheme-for-racket-9.9.9-pre-release.17/csug" "--installreleasenotes=/gnu/store/c66pkyb1kvbi0jn1shanxrzbjvfqjmqf-chez-scheme-for-racket-9.9.9-pre-release.17-doc/share/doc/chez-scheme-for-racket-9.9.9-pre-release.17/release_notes" "--installprefix=/gnu/store/bqjwn04ix8xd9bwdni861244yza75qrf-chez-scheme-for-racket-9.9.9-pre-release.17" "ZLIB=-lz" "LZ4=-llz4" "--libkernel" "--nogzip-man-pages")
> > No suitable machine type found in "../ChezScheme/boot".
> > 
> > Available machine types:
> >    tpb64l
> > 
> > See "../ChezScheme/BUILDING" for ways of getting boot files.
> > 
> > I'll see about fixing the missing files or configure options. Don't let
> > it not building on riscv64 delay this update though.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for this report! I would have expected that to work, and it's tricky
> to test without hardware.

Ah, yeah, QEMU is really good but there are definitely times it isn't
enough, and without real hardware it definitely falls into a "you want
it, you keep it working" category.

> Before getting into the weeds, I agree with you that it shouldn't block the
> update, especially if it was already broken. I'm not a Guix committer, but
> as far as I'm concerned this series is ready to merge.
> 
> As far as riscv64, it looks like chez-scheme-for-racket-bootstrap-bootfiles
> created "portable bytecode" bootfiles ("tpb64l") instead of native riscv64
> ones. You can confirm if that is the problem (or at least *a* problem) by
> checking if the lib/chez-scheme-bootfiles directory in the bootstrap
> package's output contains a directory named "tpb64l" instead of "trv64le".

That's what I saw when I looked. I've been poking a bunch of packages
recently so I don't remember exactly, but I think I tried building with
the tpb64l bytecode and there were some issues later on which made that
not work.

> If that is indeed the problem, most likely either there is a bug in my
> change to rktboot's auto-detection or there were additional auto-detection
> bugs I didn't find.
> 
> One way things could have gone wrong is if Racket BC returned something
> unexpected from (system-library-subpath #f). It would help to confirm the
> results of that, (system-type 'os*), and (system-type 'arch).
> 
> In principle, if the problem is only with rktboot's auto-detection, it
> should work to just keep supplying the explicit --machine flag for now, i.e.
> drop patch 3/3 from this series.

I've thought about it both ways, and since all the testing has been with
the third patch included I'm going to push all three patches and then
continue working on the riscv64 build.

> Racket doesn't have CI on riscv64 or distribute builds for it, but Matthew
> Flatt did share a nice screenshot earlier this summer of DrRacket running on
> a STAR64 :)

Patches pushed!

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