#57878 - Emacs native compilation on startup can crash the system

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#57878: Emacs native compilation on startup can crash the
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Hello,

Konrad, Emacs team: is this bug still happening today?

  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/57878

TIA,
Ludo’.

Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com> skribis:

> Am Samstag, dem 17.09.2022 um 17:45 +0200 schrieb Konrad Hinsen:
>> Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> writes:
>> 
>> > Here is a minimal containerized example that
>> > creates a process avalanche:
>> > 
>> >     guix shell -C emacs emacs-ido-completing-read+ \
>> >        -- emacs --batch --eval="(print load-path)"
>> 
>> I went through all my emacs packages. The only one that starts
>> the process avalanche is emacs-ido-completing-read+.
> I think you can prevent native-compilation entirely by setting no-
> native-compile to t in your early-init.el (I'm playing with the idea of
> doing this anyway, because I'm annoyed by the clutter that falls
> through the cracks).  That being said, this looks like a real breakage
> in the emacs-ido-completing-read package, does it not?  Should we add
> "no-native-compile" to some local variables?
>
> WDYT?

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#57878 Emacs native compilation on startup can crash the system