[tex-live] .fmt problems, and luatex failure on Solaris Intel

[Ettore Aldrovandi]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 09:42:09AM -0600, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:

> I too have been seeing intermittent failures to build .fmt files on

Same here on Solaris.

> This morning, I manually ran
> 
> 	fmtutil-sys --all
 
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> On Solaris Intel, I get this final report:
> 
> `luatex -ini  -jobname=dvilualatex -progname=dvilualatex dvilualatex.ini' failed
> `luatex -ini  -jobname=lualatex -progname=lualatex lualatex.ini' failed
> `luatex -ini  -jobname=luatex -progname=luatex luatex.ini' failed
> `luatex -ini  -jobname=dviluatex -progname=dviluatex dviluatex.ini' failed
> 
> >From earlier in the logs, here is the reason:
> 
> fmtutil: running `luatex -ini   -jobname=dviluatex -progname=dviluatex dviluatex.ini' ...
> ld.so.1: luatex: fatal: relocation error: file
> /home/archive/share/lib/tex/texlive-2011-05/bin/i386-solaris/luatex:
> symbol asprintf: referenced symbol not found
> Killed
 
> The luatex executable is referencing a non-existent symbol.  This
> seems to be the same problem as I reported earlier, and is due to the
> builds being done on a Solaris 11 system.

Indeed. I'm surprised it ran at all.  ldd -r luatex (and ldd -s luatex) will give the complete picture:

ldd -r luatex
        libsocket.so.1 =>        /lib/libsocket.so.1
        libnsl.so.1 =>   /lib/libnsl.so.1
        libstdc++.so.6 =>        (file not found)
        libm.so.2 =>     /lib/libm.so.2
        libgcc_s.so.1 =>         (file not found)
        libc.so.1 =>     /lib/libc.so.1
        libmp.so.2 =>    /lib/libmp.so.2
        libmd.so.1 =>    /lib/libmd.so.1
        libscf.so.1 =>   /lib/libscf.so.1
        libdoor.so.1 =>  /lib/libdoor.so.1
        libuutil.so.1 =>         /lib/libuutil.so.1
        libgen.so.1 =>   /lib/libgen.so.1
        symbol not found: _ZTVN10__cxxabiv120__si_class_type_infoE              (luatex)
        symbol not found: _ZTVN10__cxxabiv117__class_type_infoE         (luatex)
        symbol not found: asprintf              (luatex)
        symbol not found: _ZdlPv                (luatex)
        symbol not found: _Znwj         (luatex)
        symbol not found: _Unwind_Resume                (luatex)
        symbol not found: mkdtemp               (luatex)
        symbol not found: nanosleep             (luatex)
        symbol not found: _ZdaPv                (luatex)
        symbol not found: _Znaj         (luatex)
        symbol not found: __dynamic_cast                (luatex)
        symbol not found: __cxa_pure_virtual            (luatex)
        symbol not found: __gxx_personality_v0          (luatex)

it gets better with

env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/sfw/lib ldd -r luatex
        libsocket.so.1 =>        /lib/libsocket.so.1
        libnsl.so.1 =>   /lib/libnsl.so.1
        libstdc++.so.6 =>        /usr/sfw/lib/libstdc++.so.6
        libm.so.2 =>     /lib/libm.so.2
        libgcc_s.so.1 =>         /usr/sfw/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
        libc.so.1 =>     /lib/libc.so.1
        libmp.so.2 =>    /lib/libmp.so.2
        libmd.so.1 =>    /lib/libmd.so.1
        libscf.so.1 =>   /lib/libscf.so.1
        libdoor.so.1 =>  /lib/libdoor.so.1
        libuutil.so.1 =>         /lib/libuutil.so.1
        libgen.so.1 =>   /lib/libgen.so.1
        symbol not found: asprintf              (luatex)
        symbol not found: mkdtemp               (luatex)
        symbol not found: nanosleep             (luatex)

but it still doesn't find all the symbols.  And there are other binaries exhibiting the same problem. 


> I could do a build and install from source here on Solaris 10, but it
> would be wiped by the next tlmgr update.

yes, if you use the tex-live arch-name i386-solaris.  I have rebuilt
the binaries both 32 and 64 bits, and keep them with the arch names
i386-pc-solaris10 and x86_64-pc-solaris10.  Admittedly, my texlive is
now a frankenstein, but it works. With the rebuilt binaries I have had
no failures.  Or you can install using the "custom" architecture.

Actually the Solaris 10 binaries work on Solaris 11 as well. (Grafted
them on a trial virtualbox S11 installation.)


--Ettore

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