bug#46330: Guile-provided GMP allocators interfere with GnuTLS

[Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org>]

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Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skriver:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:
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>> One of the solutions is to set:
>>
>>   scm_install_gmp_memory_functions = 0;
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> Done in a53f711422f63d7e32b8639b968cf00bcc69ffea, followed by an update
> of the ‘guix’ package in 63d4b74420563c4e2dbdfa29b3816d1dad9cd723.
>
> This mostly solves the problem on the Guix side, but the issue remains
> in GnuTLS.  I practical terms, we could experience random test failures
> in the guile-gnutls test suite, like the Debian folks did.
>
> At the very least we’ll need to work around that possibility in
> ‘core-updates’.  We could skip them, or add ‘gc-disable’ calls there.
> Or we could build GnuTLS against Nettle-with-mini-GMP when that becomes
> an option.
>
> The other option coming up is to build Guile against mini-GMP.  Mike
> Gran just started looked into it and it may be that 3.0.6 will offer it.
>
> I’m keeping the bug open until this is sorted out.

I believe this was sorted with the mini-gmp in Guile 3.0.6.  Please
reopen if I'm mistaken.  :-)

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