bug#52376: 28.0.90; libdir is missing from native-comp-eln-load-path with GTK3 build

[Andrea Corallo]

Bhavin Gandhi <bhavin7392@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello Eli and Andrea
>
> On Thu, 9 Dec 2021 at 16:36, Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org> wrote:
>> eln files are most likely not sharable between these two builds, copying
>> them will have no effect as Emacs will decide not use them.
>>
>> eln files should be produced for each flavour of build independently.
>
> Yes, I'm keeping them for each build independently, the three
> directories below are for GTK3, Lucid, and no-X
>
> $ ls /usr/lib64/emacs/28.0.90/native-lisp/
> 28.0.90-619a407c  28.0.90-a325c617  28.0.90-f21cc02e
>
> On Thu, 9 Dec 2021 at 02:01, Bhavin Gandhi <bhavin7392@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I suggest to step in a debugger through the
>> > code in load_pdump, and see which of the *.pdmp files it finds in the
>> > problematic case; my guess is that it finds the one in the build
>> > directory, not in the installation directory.
>>
>> Okay. I will try to do that and see what it shows.
>> […]
>> Thank you for the help so far. I will experiment and post results here.
>
> So, I build the binaries again as suggested by etc/DEBUG, set breakpoint
> at load_pdump function. Here is the command log and output values I got.
>
> bhavin@toolbox ~ $ gdb  --args /usr/bin/emacs -Q
> Reading symbols from /usr/bin/emacs...
> Reading symbols from
> /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/emacs-28.0.90-28.0.90-1.fc35.x86_64.debug...
> (gdb) directory
> /home/bhavin/src/emacs/emacs-pretest-rpm/emacs-28.0.90/build-gtk/src
> Source directories searched:
> /home/bhavin/src/emacs/emacs-pretest-rpm/emacs-28.0.90/build-gtk/src:$cdir:$cwd
> (gdb) source 
> /home/bhavin/src/emacs/emacs-pretest-rpm/emacs-28.0.90/build-gtk/src/.gdbinit
> Warning: /home/bhavin/../lwlib: No such file or directory.
> SIGINT is used by the debugger.
> Are you sure you want to change it? (y or n) [answered Y; input not
> from terminal]
> DISPLAY = :0
> TERM = xterm-256color
> Breakpoint 1 at 0x5d58c0: file ../../src/emacs.c, line 399.
> Breakpoint 2 at 0x592bad: file ../../src/xterm.c, line 10252.
>
> (gdb) break load_pdump
> Breakpoint 3 at 0x5d6679: file ../../src/emacs.c, line 829.
>
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /usr/bin/emacs -Q
>
> Breakpoint 3, load_pdump (argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffe1b8) at 
> ../../src/emacs.c:829
> 829    {
>
> I pressed n a couple of times here.
>
> 871      emacs_executable = load_pdump_find_executable (argv[0], &bufsize);
> (gdb)
> 872      exec_bufsize = bufsize;
>
> (gdb) p emacs_executable
> $1 = 0xdf0190 "/usr/bin/emacs-28.0.90"
>
> (gdb)
> 909      result = pdumper_load (dump_file, emacs_executable);
> (gdb) p dump_file
> $2 = 0xd99900 "/usr/bin/emacs-28.0.90.pdmp"
>
> (gdb) n
> 910      if (result == PDUMPER_LOAD_SUCCESS)
> (gdb) p result
> $3 = 0
> (gdb) c
> Continuing.
>
> So, I think it is able to find the correct .pdmp file in this case, but
> when I continue and inspect native-comp-eln-load-path, the libdir is
> still not there.
>
> In case of Lucid, it finds the /usr/bin/emacs-28.0.90-lucid.pdmp, and
> when continuing the libdir is there is native-comp-eln-load-path.

Hi Bhavin,

I suggest to set a breakpoint at pdumper.c:5321 and print 'fndata' to
see where we do expect to find the installed eln we don't find.

Thanks

  Andrea