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

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Marius,

Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skriver:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:
>>
>>> One of the solutions is to set:
>>>
>>>   scm_install_gmp_memory_functions = 0;
>>
>> 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.  :-)

Definitely; it’s wonderful.  :-)

I adjusted ‘guile-launcher.c’ accordingly in
d92ee0a8bdc324726e737bf4ef099d75724ce8c9.

Thanks,
Ludo’.