Hi John, On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 1:33 AM John David Anglin <dave.ang...@bell.net> wrote: > > Source: erlang > Version: 1:20.3.8.8+dfsg-1 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > Since version 1:20.3.8.8+dfsg-1, erlang has failed to build on hppa. It > fails with a bad argument exception running escript:
I've noticed that, but at the time the bug has been introduced I didn't find a solution too. > > escript /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/lib/erl_docgen/priv/bin/github_link.escript > diameter_codec.xml \ > "lib/diameter/doc/src/diameter_codec.xml" "NA" ../xml/diameter_codec.xml > escript: exception error: bad argument > in function re:split/3 Looks like something goes wrong with the regexp engine introduced in Erlang 20. We don't see consistent FTBFS until version 21.0, but it's only because re:split/3 hasn't been used during Erlang builds. If you look at YAWS build logs for example (see [1]), you'll see that it started to fail on hppa just at the time Erlang 20 appears. I'll look into this, but I can't promise that it'll be soon. The hppa architecture has pretty low priority now, sorry. [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=yaws&arch=hppa Cheers! -- Sergei Golovan