railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport

Install with --with-native-compilation option causes scrolling stutters and produces an error on exit

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kris-anderson commented

What you were trying to do

Install emacs-mac with the --with-native-compilation option on both an Intel and M1 MacBook running macOS 13.4.1.

What happened

$ brew install emacs-mac --with-modules --with-native-compilation --with-emacs-big-sur-icon

Everything appears to install okay. At first doom emacs was giving me errors when I tried to run any doom command like doom sync. I fixed that by reinstalling gcc and libgccjit though.

brew reinstall gcc libgccjit

Now emacs-mac installs without error, and doom sync, doom upgrade, and doom doctor all work without errors.

So far so good! But here's where I run into two problems.

Problem 1

When scrolling through a file in emacs, there are stutters every 0.5-1.0 seconds. This is when holding the j/k keys to move the cursor up and down the file.

Problem 2

When exiting emacs C-x C-c, immediately upon exiting, macOS throws up an error report. Sometimes I get 1 report, sometimes I get 2, and sometimes I get 3, all when quitting the application a single time.

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Translated Report (Full Report Below)
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Process:               Emacs [5536]
Path:                  /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs
Identifier:            org.gnu.Emacs
Version:               28.2 (1.1)
Code Type:             ARM-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        Exited process [4959]
User ID:               502

Date/Time:             2023-07-02 01:03:45.3254 -0700
OS Version:            macOS 13.4.1 (22F82)
Report Version:        12
Anonymous UUID:        5D1D276B-9C2F-AC00-AA1A-BAB97C9ECC29

Sleep/Wake UUID:       F2B232A1-D8A1-489B-BE36-CEE3DB3C8CEA

Time Awake Since Boot: 84000 seconds
Time Since Wake:       4402 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        1  org.gnu.Emacs.lisp-main

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Thread 0::  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib        	       0x19fdbbe90 semaphore_wait_trap + 8
1   libdispatch.dylib             	       0x19fc4c99c _dispatch_sema4_wait + 28
2   libdispatch.dylib             	       0x19fc4d050 _dispatch_semaphore_wait_slow + 132
3   Emacs                         	       0x104ac10a4 mac_gui_loop + 40
4   Emacs                         	       0x104ad9464 main.cold.1 + 16
5   Emacs                         	       0x104ac0e14 main + 616
6   dyld                          	       0x19faa3f28 start + 2236

Thread 1 Crashed:: org.gnu.Emacs.lisp-main

Solution

The only thing that fixes both of the above problems, at least that I've been able to determine, is not using the --with-native-compilation when building emacs-mac.

$ brew install emacs-mac --with-modules --with-emacs-big-sur-icon

When I build without native-compilation, scrolling works without issue, and I get no errors when exiting the app.

It's worth noting that I was able to get rid of the errors when exiting the app by creating an early-init.el file that contained the following (when I was running emacs with the --with-native-compilation option):

(setenv "LIBRARY_PATH"
	(string-join
	 '("/opt/homebrew/Cellar/gcc/13.1.0"
	   "/opt/homebrew/opt/libgccjit/lib/gcc/current"
	   "opt/homebrew/opt/gcc/lib/gcc/current/gcc/aarch64-apple-darwin22/13")
	 ":"))

Even though this fixed my error when exiting the application, I still ended up with stuttering when scrolling through files.

Output of brew config

$ brew config
HOMEBREW_VERSION: 4.0.26
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
HEAD: eff45ef570f265e226f14ce91da72d7a6e7d516a
Last commit: 5 days ago
Core tap JSON: 02 Jul 08:10 UTC
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /opt/homebrew
HOMEBREW_BAT_THEME: OneHalfLight
HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS: []
HOMEBREW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN: set
HOMEBREW_MAKE_JOBS: 10
HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS: set
HOMEBREW_NO_INSECURE_REDIRECT: set
Homebrew Ruby: 2.6.10 => /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/bin/ruby
CPU: 10-core 64-bit arm_firestorm_icestorm
Clang: 14.0.3 build 1403
Git: 2.41.0 => /opt/homebrew/bin/git
Curl: 7.88.1 => /usr/bin/curl
macOS: 13.4.1-arm64
CLT: 14.3.1.0.1.1683849156
Xcode: N/A
Rosetta 2: false

Output of brew doctor

$ brew doctor
Your system is ready to brew.
doubledup commented

While the stuttering's happening, do you have a buffer called *Async-native-compile-log*? (SPC-b-B to switch to it) Emacs used significant CPU for me until that buffer's process finished after a few minutes.

kris-anderson commented

While the stuttering's happening, do you have a buffer called *Async-native-compile-log*? (SPC-b-B to switch to it) Emacs used significant CPU for me until that buffer's process finished after a few minutes.

Thank you for the reply. That looks like it solves my first problem! 👍

I wasn't giving emacs enough time, and it was still compiling for about 4-5 minutes the first time I open the app (after install Doom emacs).

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doubledup commented

Cool! I'm also here from Doom - found your issue while looking through doom doctor output.

Can confirm I've also got your second issue. Though adding the LIBRARY_PATH value at the end of ~/.config/emacs/early-init.el doesn't prevent the crashes on exit for me (adding it earlier tells me that string-join's definition is void). I've confirmed I have all 3 directories.

Looks like the last path in LIBRARY_PATH is missing a leading /.

The crashes only happen for me after opening files (elisp config), not if I exit from the splash screen. They happen whether loading the last session in Doom or opening files directly.

kris-anderson commented

Cool! I'm also here from Doom - found your issue while looking through doom doctor output.

Can confirm I've also got your second issue. Though adding the LIBRARY_PATH value at the end of ~/.config/emacs/early-init.el doesn't prevent the crashes on exit for me (adding it earlier tells me that string-join's definition is void). I've confirmed I have all 3 directories.

Looks like the last path in LIBRARY_PATH is missing a leading /.

The crashes only happen for me after opening files (elisp config), not if I exit from the splash screen. They happen whether loading the last session in Doom or opening files directly.

Are you on an ARM or Intel Mac? The LIBRARY_PATH I posted above is for an ARM Mac. Homebrew uses a different base path for Intel machines, so if you're on Intel I think that needs to be changed to /usr/local.

zenspider commented

@kris-anderson you still have a missing slash above:

	   "opt/homebrew/opt/gcc/lib/gcc/current/gcc/aarch64-apple-darwin22/13")
kris-anderson commented

@kris-anderson you still have a missing slash above:

	   "opt/homebrew/opt/gcc/lib/gcc/current/gcc/aarch64-apple-darwin22/13")

Thank you for catching that!

Just to update my post, this seems to have been fixed in version 29 of Emacs. I no longer get error reports (my second issue) when exiting Emacs! :)

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doubledup commented

Are you on an ARM or Intel Mac? The LIBRARY_PATH I posted above is for an ARM Mac. Homebrew uses a different base path for Intel machines, so if you're on Intel I think that needs to be changed to /usr/local.

Sorry for the delayed reply, I'm on an ARM Mac as well. Glad that it's fixed, my error reports are gone too! 🎉