[tlbuild] sharable format files

[Vladimir Volovich]

"KB" == Karl Berry writes:

 KB> 7. I wonder if bigendianness was not correctly detected on sparc
 KB> (maybe due to that weird endian-neutral thing it does now)?  Or if
 KB> there is some (64-bit?) compiler flag interfering?
   
 KB> 8. Vladimir, you built the sparc-solaris binaries.  Can you check
 KB> your configure results?  And what is happening on aix, etc.?

same output on sparc-solaris and powerpc-aix:

$ grep -i check.*endian tl-build-20090918.log
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... yes
checking endian.h usability... no
checking endian.h presence... no
checking for endian.h... no
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... yes
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... yes
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... yes
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... yes
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... yes
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... yes
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... yes

 KB> 9. I put a copy of my tex.fmt which I hope/believe is supposed to
 KB> be the sharable one at http://tug.org/~karl/sharable-tex.fmt.gz.
   
 KB>    Platform builders, can you please see if your tex can read this?
 KB> I'm out of time for today.  That is:
 
 KB> wget http://tug.org/~karl/sharable-tex.fmt.gz gunzip
 KB> sharable-tex.fmt.gz tex \&./sharable-tex \\end

$ ./powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0/tex \&./sharable-tex \\end
This is TeX, Version 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2009)
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)

$ ./sparc-sun-solaris2.8/tex \&./sharable-tex \\end
This is TeX, Version 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2009)
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)

do you have an idea where i could look to try to debug why it can't read
the format, or where it is possibly mis-depecting the endianness?

Best,
v.