civodul pushed a commit to branch master
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commit 92423868bc451600f8f3d93b638091d12b14b7aa
Author: Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]>
Date: Mon Jan 15 15:43:53 2018 +0100
ui: Disable '%fresh-auto-compile' only for Guile 2.2.3.
Mitigates <https://bugs.gnu.org/29881>.
Reported by Diego Nicola Barbato <[email protected]>.
* guix/ui.scm (load*): Unset '%fresh-auto-compile' only on Guile 2.2.3.
---
guix/ui.scm | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/guix/ui.scm b/guix/ui.scm
index 8951797..fb2380b 100644
--- a/guix/ui.scm
+++ b/guix/ui.scm
@@ -195,7 +195,16 @@ messages."
(catch #t
(lambda ()
;; XXX: Force a recompilation to avoid ABI issues.
- ;; (set! %fresh-auto-compile #t)
+ ;;
+ ;; In 2.2.3, the bogus answer to <https://bugs.gnu.org/29226> was to
+ ;; ignore all available .go, not just those from ~/.cache, which in turn
+ ;; meant that we had to rebuild *everything*. Since this is too costly,
+ ;; we have to turn auto '%fresh-auto-compile' with that version, at the
+ ;; risk of getting ABI breakage in the user's config file. See
+ ;; <https://bugs.gnu.org/29881>.
+ (unless (string=? (version) "2.2.3")
+ (set! %fresh-auto-compile #t))
+
(set! %load-should-auto-compile #t)
(save-module-excursion
