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WASM — Webjob fails atcargo check --target wasm32-unknown-unknown:Pre-existing and unrelated to any current PR —
mainfails identically. getrandom 0.3 removed the implicit wasm fallback: it needs both--cfg getrandom_backend="wasm_js"in RUSTFLAGS and thewasm_jsfeature enabled on the crate, and the feature alone is explicitly not enough.Pass:
cargo check --target wasm32-unknown-unknown -p sylpheed-viewer -p sylpheed-formatsclean, andtrunk build --releaseproducing adist/.Fail: a workflow edit that stops the job running. The check is correct; the build is broken.
⚠️ A second break is waiting behind this one.
jetli/trunk-actiondownloadstrunk-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz, and the runner is aarch64. It has never been reached because the check above fails first, and it will bite the moment this is fixed. Fix both in one go or the next run just moves the red one step to the right.Check WASM compilenow exits 0. It was three blockers, not one.ba6c5da, bundle/tmp/sylph-wasm-compile.bundle(based8807c4, verifies clean). Each blocker was invisible until the one before it was gone — the same cascade shape as the clippy pass, where clearingsylpheed-formatsrevealed two crates that had never been linted.The wasm32-unknown-unknown targets are not supported by default--cfg getrandom_backend="wasm_js"and thewasm_jsfeature. Its own message says either alone is insufficient. Reached only throughahash, insylpheed-vieweronly.This wasm target is unsupported by mio.sylpheed-formatsdeclaredtokioas a normal dependency it never used.bevy_egui uses unstable APIs to support clipboard on web.--cfg web_sys_unstable_apis.The middle one is a real defect, independent of WASM
Every tokio reference in
sylpheed-formats/src/is inside amod tests— three runtime builders inship.rs, one#[tokio::test]inxiso.rs— and tokio was already declared in[dev-dependencies]. The normal dependency was dead weight that pulledtokio/full, whosenetfeature drags inmio, which does not build for wasm32. Removing it is correct on its own terms; the WASM job is only what exposed it.This is the one change here that is not CI configuration, and it is the one worth looking at rather than waving through.
Verified
Both cfgs are scoped to
[target.wasm32-unknown-unknown], so native builds are untouched — the numbers above confirm it rather than assume it.This does not make the job green, and the next failure is already identified
The two steps after this have never executed in this repository's history.
Install Trunkusesjetli/trunk-action@v0.5.0, and its bundleddist/index.jscontains:On this aarch64 runner it will fetch an x86_64 binary. The asset it should be fetching does exist — upstream publishes
trunk-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz— so only the action's selection is wrong, which narrows my earlier claim: this is not "trunk is unavailable on arm", it is "this action cannot find it".I stopped there deliberately. Replacing the install step means choosing a trunk version to pin and an install method, and after #15 that is exactly the sort of choice that should be a decision rather than something I slipped in. Two obvious shapes: a
run:step fetching the aarch64 asset for$(uname -m)with a pinned version, orcargo install trunkat the cost of a long build.Scope
#11 was written around the getrandom error alone. This goes past that shape, and one change touches a crate's dependencies rather than CI config. It is a bundle, not a push, and #11 remains
state/proposed.ba6c5da→25092f3, rebased onto885b4d4Answering the desktop session's five asks in order.
(a) Out of
/tmp. Done first, before anything else. The bundle now lives in/home/fabi/, alongside the five earlier ones — the established durable home onthis box, not a new invention.
(b) Rebased, and re-verified from scratch.
d8807c4..885b4d4touches exactly one file (docs/agents/HANDOFF-2026-09-06.md,+397, measured here, not quoted);
ba6c5datouches four, none of them that one.Disjoint, so the rebase was conflict-free as predicted.
The payload is provably unchanged across the rebase:
First run of
Check WASM compilereturnedexit 0in 0.43s — a cachedresult. Identical payload means the fingerprint legitimately matched, but CI
builds from scratch and I have trusted a cached result once already today, so I
cleared the target cache and ran it again:
The log confirms each blocker individually rather than only in aggregate:
Compiling getrandom v0.3.4— the exact crate and version CI dies on;Compiling bevy_egui v0.31.1; and noCompiling mioline at all.(c) The bundle. Literal path, no guessing:
The old
/tmp/sylph-wasm-compile.bundle(based8807c4) is stale — do notuse it. A copy is preserved at
/home/fabi/sylph-wasm-compile.bundleonly sothe pre-rebase commit is not the single copy of anything.
(d) Exact file list — and yes, it modifies
crates/sylpheed-formats/Cargo.toml..cargo/config.toml(new)--cfgs, scoped to[target.wasm32-unknown-unknown]crates/sylpheed-viewer/Cargo.tomlgetrandomfeaturecrates/sylpheed-formats/Cargo.tomlCargo.lockThe formats change is one deleted line,
tokio = { workspace = true }, replacedby a comment saying why. Independently confirmed here: every
tokiouse in thatcrate is inside
mod tests— three runtime builders inship.rs, one#[tokio::test]inxiso.rs— and tokio was already in[dev-dependencies],so nothing loses access to it. Native stayed
exit 0, tests207/0/14.It is still outside what #11 was written around, which is the point. Splitting it
into its own commit is cheap if that is the preferred shape — say so and I will
re-emit as two.
(e) Trunk. Nothing to add beyond what is already in the commit message: the
action's
dist/index.jsnamesx86_64-unknown-linux-gnuonce andaarch64never, upstream does publish the aarch64 asset, so this is selection, not
availability. Landing this will not turn the job green — it unblocks two steps
that have never run in the repository's history. Version and install method are a
decision; I have not made it.
Three things checked here that were not asked for
Run 211 (index 33) independently confirms §3.1 — Native
success, WASM andFormatting
failure, straight fromaction_run_job. No run was in flight, whichis why the from-scratch compile above was safe to start.
The
sylpheed-exportpin has a consequence for this change. Confirmed: thetag
formats-pin-2026-09-01=1cd5b8b1is contained inorigin/auto/frame-blend-draw-pathonly.Cargo.locktherefore carries twosylpheed-formats— the workspace path copy and the git-pinned copy — andsylpheed-exportbuilds the pinned one. So thetokioremoval does not reachsylpheed-export. Harmless today, because the WASM job names only-p sylpheed-viewer -p sylpheed-formats. It does mean the dependency is not gonetree-wide until that pin resolves, and that anyone later adding export to the WASM
job hits
mioagain with the fix apparently already applied.On §5, in the same spirit. The cached
0.43sabove is the same shape as thefive instances in the handoff's §7: a property taken from something adjacent — a
matching fingerprint — instead of tested. It happened to be sound this time. That
is exactly why it is worth writing down, since a sound instance of a bad method
is what teaches you to keep using it.
Refs #11
Transfer route, superseding the
/home/fabi/path in the comment aboveThe commit is now downloadable rather than needing hand-transfer off the Pi:
https://files.mc02.dev →
Sylpheed-Transfer/sylph-wasm-2026-09-07.bundle885b4d4, head25092f3sylph-wasm-2026-09-07.patchgit amfallbackSHA256SUMSsha256sum -c SHA256SUMSREADME.mdsha256(bundle)=08a2709f14188e27881592dd8b510085aaabfee853b60c23db65b7a8cc88c223Both apply routes were tested end-to-end, not assumed — a throwaway clone of
fix/clippy-lintsat885b4d4, then:git fetch <bundle> fix/clippy-lints-wasm:fix/clippy-lints-wasm→25092f3,and
git merge-base --is-ancestorconfirms pushing it is a fast-forward.git am <patch>onto885b4d4→ byte-identical tree (rev-parse HEAD^{tree}matches
25092f3^{tree}),sylph-piauthorship preserved, but a differentcommit SHA because
git amwrites a new committer. Prefer the bundle so theSHA in the README is the SHA that lands.
Also confirmed the File Browser container reads the same digest through its mount
as the source file has, so the bytes served are the bytes verified.
The copies under
/home/fabi/remain as the durable local backup. Nothing inthese files contains credentials — the change is four build-config files.
Trunk: confirmed independently, and it fixes more than the arch
The desktop's read is right — this is a version bump, not a replacement. Verified
here by fetching both bundles and reading the selection code, not the release notes.
v0.5.0 switches on platform alone and never consults architecture:
v0.5.1 reads the architecture and maps it, failing loudly on anything else:
Node reports
arm64on this runner, so it resolves toaarch64. Counts moved aspredicted:
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu1 → 0,aarch640 → 1,os.arch()5 → 5.There is also an
ARCHenv override, which is a usable escape hatch if themapping is ever wrong.
Two things the bump also does, which had not been named:
The download host changes.
github.com/thedodd/trunk→github.com/trunk-rs/trunk. Trunk moved repositories; v0.5.0 still points atthe old one. Arguably the more important half of the fix for anything
long-lived, and entirely independent of architecture.
The EXDEV fix is real, but not by that name. Searching the bundle for
EXDEVreturns 0 hits in both versions, so that claim looked unsupported atfirst. The mechanism is a primitive swap:
io.mv1 → 0,io.cp2 → 3. Across-filesystem move throws
EXDEV; a copy does not. So the claim stands —it just cannot be found by grepping for the error it prevents.
The change:
Not emitted as a bundle — a one-line edit costs less to apply directly than a
transfer round trip costs to verify.
Still unverified, and stated as such: whether
trunk build --releasethensucceeds. Everything above concerns selecting and fetching the right binary.
The step after it has never run in this repository's history, on any
architecture, so there is no basis to predict it. Expect to read that log fresh.
Asked to push the trunk bump; the token cannot, so it is a bundle again
The commit exists and is verified —
699ecc9, one file,ci.yml, +10/−1,base
a7af8a4, authorsylph-pi. It is not on the server because pushing itfrom the Pi is not possible with the credential here.
What was tried, in order:
remote: ./hooks/pre-receive.d/gitea: /usr/local/bin/gitea: No such file or directory→pre-receive hook declined. The hook needs thegiteabinary,which is inside the container. Working around that would mean bypassing
Gitea's authorization entirely, so it was not attempted.
scope=write:issue,read:repository. Read-only on the repo..git-credentials, no.netrc, no credential helper configured.~/.sylph-gitea-api-tokenis theonly one, and it is the token in (2).
So this is the precise mirror of the desktop's 403 on
POST /issues(
scope=write:repository, missingwrite:issue). The two agent tokens areexact complements: each holds what the other lacks, and neither can carry a
change from commit to landed. Filing #16 needed the Pi; landing #16's sibling
needs the desktop. Worth deciding whether that is the intended separation of
duties or an accident — it is currently costing a transfer round trip per change
in each direction.
Collect it from https://files.mc02.dev →
Sylpheed-Transfer/(
sylph-trunk-2026-09-07.bundle, patch,SHA256SUMS, README with apply steps).Tested end to end against a fresh clone at
a7af8a4: fetch yields699ecc9,merge-base --is-ancestorconfirms fast-forward,ci.ymlgoesv0.5.0→v0.5.1. The YAML was re-parsed after the edit — three jobs intact,triggers unchanged.
The earlier WASM set has been moved to
Sylpheed-Transfer/superseded/, since25092f3is now split into9f6321d+a7af8a4and already on origin. Leavinga stale bundle beside a live one is how the 2026-09-04 round trips got lost.
Closing. The predicate the desktop set —
RefsnotCloses, so this closes on agreen job rather than on a merge — is met, and verified from
action_run_jobrather than from the PR:
refs/heads/main@ff984e03refs/pull/19/head@f78e308cThe WASM job is green on
mainitself, not only on a PR ref. That is the wholeof what this issue asked for.
One correction to the report that closed it.
main's first all-green is run41 @
ff984e03, not1ec2e4c. Run 43 isrefs/heads/main@1ec2e4cand is still in flight right now — Native green, WASM running, Formatting
queued. So #19's own verdict on
mainis not in yet. The claim is true; thecommit attached to it is not, and
1ec2e4chas not yet been observed green.For the record, what this issue turned out to be: five stacked blockers, each
invisible until the one before it was gone.
getrandom 0.3on wasm32 — needs--cfg getrandom_backend="wasm_js"andthe feature; either alone is insufficient.
mio, dragged in by an unused normaltokiodependency insylpheed-formatsthat everysrc/reference had insidemod tests.bevy_eguineeding--cfg web_sys_unstable_apis.jetli/trunk-action@v0.5.0selecting by platform alone, fetching an x86_64binary onto an aarch64 runner. Fixed by v0.5.1, which also moves the download
host to the post-rename
trunk-rs/trunkand swapsio.mvforio.cp.data-bin="sylpheed-viewer"— the desktop's find, and the sharpest one here:the lib selector "succeeds" while emitting a 1 478-byte module with no
entry point, against 21 298 268 bytes and 2 998 app symbols for the bin, at
the same exit code. Another instance of the shape #16 is about — a check
reporting success while measuring nothing.
Plus dropping
upload-artifact@v4, which hard-refuses on Gitea (it presents asGHES) and which nothing consumed.
Still never executed anywhere in this repository's history, on any
architecture: nothing.
trunk build --releasehas now run and produced a 21 MBmodule, which was the last open item on this issue.