[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 last statement is incorrect; the error arises only on 3 
executables:

- xdvi-xaw
- luatex
- dvips