Hi, On 24/08/2020 07:42, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 02:08:44PM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote: >> Hello, >> >> ghostscript failed to build on armhf for stretch-security: >> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=ghostscript&arch=armhf&ver=9.26a%7Edfsg-0%2Bdeb9u7&stamp=1597941103&raw=0 >> "./soobj/dxmainc.o: file not recognized: File truncated" > This is a typical parallel building bug, something is reading dxmainc.o > while something else hasn't yet finished writing it. There is a > dependency between these two missing somewhere in some Makefile. > > In buster this is workarounded with > https://sources.debian.org/src/ghostscript/9.52.1%7Edfsg-1/debian/rules/#L33-L36
Thanks for the info. I didn't think of a parallel error, and was too biased on blaming armhf (including when searching other occurrences of this error). >> I cannot find an explanation for this error, and the package builds >> fine on porterbox abel.debian.org (see >> ~beuc/ghostscript_9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u7_armhf.build), so I suppose a >> transient buildd failure occurred. >> ... > Race conditions are rarely always reproducible. This statement sounds condescending and somewhat ruins what was a nice e-mail so far :/ Cheers! Sylvain