On Mon, 7 May 2007, Edd Barrett wrote:
> Hi ports@,
>
> I am still porting texlive. My problem now is that systrace is
> inconsistently chucking up this error:
>
> systrace: intercept_get_string: ioctl: Invalid argument
>
> Which kills the build. It does not occur every time.
>
> A quick google reveals that this was a bug many years ago. Has it re-appeared?
>
> I am using -current as of yesterday on sparc64.
>
> The whole transcript of a failing "make fake" (which is where this
> dies) is here:
>
> http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett/texlive/LOG2-wo-xetex
>
> Apart from that the port is going very well. I am able to build my
> university assignments (developed in teTeX) in TeXLive. I am just
> totally stuck with this systrace problem.
>
> Your help much appreciated!
I'll ry to reproduce later today, but I have couple of questions, to
determine if this is a general issue, sparc64 specific or specific for
your port.
1) Do other ports have the same problem?
2) Did you try on other archs?
3) Can you post the port somewhere?
-Otto
