[tlbuild] Core dump with image inclusion inside LuaTeX on Sparc Solaris

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 at 21:50, luigi scarso <luigi.scarso at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 9:35 PM Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sparc Solaris there's a problem with the luaimage.tex test. Here's
>> the (not too helpful) output:
>>
>> ./luatex -fmt=luaimage luaimage || exit 1
>> + ./luatex -fmt=luaimage luaimage
>> This is LuaTeX, Version 1.09.0 (TeX Live 2019/dev)
>>  restricted system commands enabled.
>> (../../../texk/web2c/luatexdir/tests/luaimage.tex [1<../../../texk/web2c/tests/
>> 1-4.jpg>]Bus Error - core dumped
>> + exit 1
>> FAIL luatexdir/luaimage.test (exit status: 1)
>>
>> Mojca
>
> ( we have already talked about it coming back from meeting... )

I just didn't have the error message available at that point (the
compilation takes forever).

> it's an alignment issue of ppheap, same as in ARM.
> There are some conditional sections for  ARM that should solve the problem, I will extend them to solaris.
> It should be ok for the next 1.09.0

Once you fix this, please also push the change to the TeX Live
repository (and let me know, so that I can check).

Thank you,
    Mojca