Comment 21 for bug 26034

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In , Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk) wrote : Re: Build problems on sarti (was: Bug#334613: failed install prevents building of another package that has tetex-bin as build-depends)

pe, 2005-11-25 kello 11:38 +0100, Frank Küster kirjoitti:
> Dear Debian admins,
>
> we need your help with that bug (I've already sent you a message
> earlier, suspecting hardware problems).
>
> Martin-Éric Racine <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> > Package: tetex-bin
> > Version: 3.0-10.1
> > Followup-For: Bug #334613
>
> Note that the user mixed things up; it's #340279.
>
> > Failure to install tetex-bin breaks the build-depend requirements of package "planner" on hppa.
> > http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=planner&ver=0.13-3&arch=hppa&stamp=1132846224&file=log&as=raw
> > Below is the stderr output:
> >
> > Setting up tetex-bin (3.0-10.1) ...
> >
> > Creating config file /etc/texmf/fmt.d/01tetex.cnf with new version
> > Running fmtutil-sys. This may take some time. ...
> > warning: Could not open char translation file `cp227.tcx'.
> > warning: Could not open char translation file `cp227.tcx'.
> > Error: `omega -ini -jobname=lambda -progname=lambda lambda.ini' failed
> > Error: `aleph -ini -jobname=lamed -progname=lamed *lambda.ini' failed
> > warning: Could not open char translation file `cp227.tcx'.
> > Error: `pdfetex -ini -jobname=amstex -progname=amstex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *amstex.ini' failed
>
> This shows that the same formats fail to build that failed with the
> original bugreport. So maybe it is in fact not so indeterministic as I
> first thought, and not a hardware failure but a real bug. However:
>
> > fmtutil failed. Output has been stored in
> > /tmp/tetex.postinst.XXxxXcHb
> > Please include this file if you report a bug.
>
> we need these temporary files. Without that there is hardly a chance to
> debug this. I just tried that the formats are built fine in paer's sid
> chroot, so it doesn't seem to be simple "doesn't work on hppa" thing
> (although I obviously couldn't do it as root, but only in my homedir).

I'd like to point out that hppa is the only architecture on which this
build failed, which points to either hppa-specific bugs in tetex-bin or
otherwise to a broken hppa buildd.

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Martin-Éric Racine
http://q-funk.iki.fi