[debbugs-tracker] bug#25221: closed (Packages manager not working in WSL emacs-25 build)

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> Packages manager not working in WSL emacs-25 build
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> Sun, 18 Dec 2016 14:07:44 +0100
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> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1
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> I recently enabled and installed WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) in 
> Windows 10 [1] and so tried to build Emacs.
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> Building Emacs master hangs [2]. So tried emacs-25 branch (+release and 
> testing). This branch builds if one adopts the work around suggested in 
> /et/PROBLEMS and from the WEB [3]:
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> echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
> ./autogen.sh
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/emacs --without-x
> make...
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> It also seems to work but trying to install packages from MELPA/ELPA fails.
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> More precisely, in emacs25:
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> M-x package-list-packages
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> After the "Package refresh done" I cannot type anything nor I can quit 
> (C-x C-c). If I do, for example pressing the down arrow key, in the 
> packages buffer I see something like this
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> [...]
> [1]+  Stopped                 emacs25ailable  melpa      No description 
> available...
> address@hidden   20151026.1233 available  melpa      play 2048 in Emacs..
> $ 4clojure           20131014.1507 available  melpa..
> [...]
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> At this point I can only try to kill Emacs. It is as if Emacs were 
> reduced to background (C-z), and a 'fg' seems to resurrect it but is 
> unusable (I have to close the WSL bash window).
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> Now, at the moment, enabling and installing WSL installs Ubuntu 14.04 
> and one can install other Ubuntu packages with apt-get. So I installed 
> the emacs24-nox packages which works without this Packages manager issue!
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> Then for sanity check I did a build of emacs-24.3.tar.gz (the same 
> version offered by WSL-Ubuntu) and it works as expected (also the 
> packages Manager).
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> So the issue seems to regards only emacs-25 branch.
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> Ciao,
>  Angelo.
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> [1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/it-it/commandline/wsl/install_guide
>     https://msdn.microsoft.com/it-it/commandline/wsl/faq
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> [2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-12/msg00427.html
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> [3] 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38905344/windows-bash-emacs-build-fail-memory-protection-enabled
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> Sat, 24 Dec 2016 17:14:05 -0800
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> > So the issue seems to regards only emacs-25 branch.
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> Yes, and in that case let's declare victory and close out this bug report, as 
> the bug is fixed in master and we're not likely to port Emacs 25 to WSL.
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