[csw-maintainers] pkgcheck phase is failing

[pfelecan]

On 2013-01-07 09:43, pfelecan wrote:
> 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

The executable is obtained as follows:

libtool: link: /opt/csw/bin/gcc-4.7 -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type 
-Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-unknown-pragmas -O2 -pipe -mcpu=v9 
-std=gnu99 -D_XPG6 -mcpu=v9 -o .libs/dvips bbox.o color.o dopage.o 
dosection.o dospecial.o download.o dpicheck.o drawPS.o dviinput.o 
dvips.o emspecial.o finclude.o fontdef.o header.o hps.o loadfont.o 
output.o papersiz.o pprescan.o prescan.o repack.o resident.o 
scalewidth.o scanpage.o search.o skippage.o t1part.o tfmload.o unpack.o 
virtualfont.o writet1.o  -L/opt/csw/lib 
/home/pfelecan/opencsw/texlive/trunk/work/solaris10-sparc/build-isa-sparcv8plus/objdir/texk/kpathsea/.libs/libkpathsea.so 
-lm -R/opt/csw/lib