[csw-maintainers] pkgcheck phase is failing

[pfelecan]

On 2013-01-07 09:03, pfelecan wrote:
> Since last week the checking phase of the packages is quite fragile.
> The last error that I got follows:
>
>   File "/home/pfelecan/opencsw/.buildsys/v2/gar//bin/checkpkg", line
> 197, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "/home/pfelecan/opencsw/.buildsys/v2/gar//bin/checkpkg", line
> 120, in main
>     stats_list = collector.CollectStatsFromFiles(file_list, None)
>   File
> "/home/pfelecan/opencsw/.buildsys/v2/lib/python/package_stats.py",
> line 506, in CollectStatsFromFiles
>     stats.CollectStats(force=force_unpack)
>   File
> "/home/pfelecan/opencsw/.buildsys/v2/lib/python/package_stats.py",
> line 175, in CollectStats
>     return self._CollectStats(register_files=register_files)
>   File
> "/home/pfelecan/opencsw/.buildsys/v2/lib/python/package_stats.py",
> line 211, in _CollectStats
>     "ldd_info": dir_pkg.GetLddMinusRlines(),
>   File
> 
> "/home/pfelecan/opencsw/.buildsys/v2/lib/python/inspective_package.py",
> line 405, in GetLddMinusRlines
>     raise package.Error("%s returned an error: %s" % (args, stderr))
> package.Error: ['ldd', '-Ur',
> '/tmp/pkg_Oqf0qy/CSWtexlive-binaries/root/opt/csw/bin/dvips'] 
> returned
> an error: ldd:
> /tmp/pkg_Oqf0qy/CSWtexlive-binaries/root/opt/csw/bin/dvips:
> elf_getehdr: Format error: shdr table truncated
>
> gmake[1]: *** [pkgcheck] Error 2
> gmake: *** [platforms-repackage] Error 2
>
> Don't hesitate to tell me when a correction is made to start a new
> iteration on TeXLive.
>
> TIA
>
> N.B. I updated the .buildsys/v2 before the action.

Additionnal information:

- this error arises only for the SPARC instance of this executable
- the executable is available as:
   
~pfelecan/opencsw/texlive/trunk/work/solaris10-sparc/install-isa-sparcv8plus/opt/csw/bin/dvips
- the error arises on all the executable files in the directory 
containing the above file