[tlbuild] sparc-linux (bigendian?) failure in icu

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Peter Breitenlohner wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Karl Berry wrote:
>
>> /u/guest/karl/tl/Build/source/Work/texk/web2c/../../../texk/web2c/luatexdir/pdf/pdffont.w:452: 
>> undefined reference to `maketexs'
>> /u/guest/karl/tl/Build/source/Work/texk/web2c/../../../texk/web2c/luatexdir/pdf/pdffont.w:453: 
>> undefined reference to `?'
>
> Looks like `maketexstring' truncated to 8 chars - strange?  I wonder how TL
> was ever built on a system with such limitations.

Hi Karl,

it just occured to me that this could also be a nasty (bigendian?) bug in
ctangle and the generated pdffont.c contains broken C code.  Is your
incomplete build still around, and if so could you check pdffont.c?

Regards
Peter