[tlbuild] Sparc64 Build

[Jonathan Kew]

On 29 May 2008, at 10:17 am, Edd Barrett wrote:

> I copied you binaries ontop of mine against a texmf/texmf-dist
> checkout and regenerated the maps and formats:
>
> ---8<---
> ###################################################################### 
> #########
> fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully.
> Visit the log files in directory
>   /opt/texlive-2008svn/texmf-var/web2c
> for details.
> ###################################################################### 
> #########
>
> This is a summary of all `failed' messages and warnings:
> `pdftex -ini  -jobname=physe -progname=physe physe.ini' failed
> `pdftex -ini  -jobname=amstex -progname=amstex
> -translate-file=cp227.tcx *amstex.ini' failed
> `pdftex -ini  -jobname=xmltex -progname=xmltex &latex xmltex.ini'  
> failed
> `pdftex -ini  -jobname=mex -progname=mex -translate-file=cp227.tcx
> *mex.ini' failed
> `pdftex -ini  -jobname=pdfmex -progname=pdfmex
> -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfmex.ini' failed
> `pdftex -ini  -jobname=eplain -progname=eplain
> -translate-file=cp227.tcx *eplain.ini' failed
> `pdftex -ini  -jobname=utf8mex -progname=utf8mex -enc *utf8mex.ini'  
> failed
> `pdftex -ini  -jobname=phyzzx -progname=phyzzx physe.ini' failed
> `pdftex -ini  -jobname=texsis -progname=texsis
> -translate-file=cp227.tcx texsis.ini' failed
> ---8<---
>
> Not sure why these are. I tried running the first one to see what
> happened exactly:
> ---8<---
> dec21# pdftex -ini  -jobname=physe -progname=physe physe.ini
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.8-beta-20080513 (Web2C  
> 7.5.6) (INITEX)
>  %&-line parsing enabled.
> (/opt/texlive-2008svn/texmf-dist/tex/physe/config/physe.ini
> (/opt/texlive-2008svn/texmf-dist/tex/plain/base/plain.tex
> Preloading the plain format: codes, registers, parameters, fonts,  
> more fonts,
> macros, math definitions, output routines, hyphenation
> (/opt/texlive-2008svn/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex)) (./physe
> ! Text line contains an invalid character.
> l.1 ^^?
>         
> ELF^^A^^B^^A^^@^^@^^@^^@^^@^^@^^@^^@^^@^^@^^B^^@^^B^^@^^@^^@^^A^^@^^C. 
> ..
> ---8<---
>
> This looks like some binary compatibility issue.

This looks like you're running the command from within the binaries  
directory, where there's already a symlink "physe" pointing to the  
pdftex executable. When the physe.ini file says "\input physe",  
expecting to read physe.tex from the texmf-dist tree, it's instead  
finding the symlink, following it, and trying to read the pdftex  
executable as a TeX input file.

Try again from a scratch directory that doesn't have files that could  
possibly "shadow" the intended inputs.

JK