Drop i686 support for guile30? (Was: guile30 maintainer is non responsive)

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Hi,

TL/DR: should guile30 drop support for i686?

guile v3.0.10 was released in June 2024. It doesn't build on 32-bit
architectures.

Fixes for that build failure where apparently added to guile's tree in
September 2024. This didn't trigger a bug-fix release of guile. The
latest release is still v3.0.10.

A Fedora build of guile v3.0.10 was tried in March 2025. This, of
course, failed for i686. Fedora is currently shipping guile v3.0.9 for
all architectures.

Yesterday I spent way too much time examining the build failure and
finding the (apparent) fixes.

I see little point in spending more time on i686 support for guile30.
Fedora could perhaps copy what Debian does to keep things building on
i686 - I haven't really checked if and how they do that - but why
bother when upstream itself hasn't even done a release fixing this?

As far as I can see this affects guile-reader and weechat (maintainers
cc-ed). And non-Fedora programs using guile's C-api built for i686 and,
maybe, some scripts doing i686 specific things. The usual workarounds
apply: recompile, port to x86_64, use virtualization, etc.

Kind regards,


Paul Bolle

PS: I tried, but failed, to keep this short. Further details are
available at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2294649 .
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