Hi! We have a rather annoying issue with xsltproc on sparc64 which almost always segfaults when processing input files. As a result, packages like systemd fail to build since xsltproc is called at some point to generate the manpages [1]:
/usr/bin/xsltproc -o man/bootup.7 --nonet --xinclude --stringparam man.output.quietly 1 --stringparam funcsynopsis.style ansi --stringparam man.authors.section.enabled 0 --stringparam man.copyright.section.enabled 0 --stringparam systemd.version 228 --path './man:../man' ../man/custom-man.xsl ../man/bootup.xml make[4]: *** [man/bootup.7] Segmentation fault A commenter in the upstream bug tracker suggested this might be an issue with older Linux kernels [2] and since all our production buildds still run Debian Wheezy (sparc) with a 3.2.0 kernel, I thought this might be correct and I therefore didn't want to jump too quickly to blame xsltproc before I have verified that. However, today I made a test build of systemd on a fully native sparc64 system with Linux 4.3.3 and an up-to-date Debian unstable on Anatoly's SPARC T5 server, with the same result [3]: /usr/bin/xsltproc -o man/bootup.7 --nonet --xinclude --stringparam man.output.quietly 1 --stringparam funcsynopsis.style ansi --stringparam man.authors.section.enabled 0 --stringparam man.copyright.section.enabled 0 --stringparam systemd.version 228 --path './man:../man' ../man/custom-man.xsl ../man/bootup.xml Makefile:21813: recipe for target 'man/bootup.7' failed I can _sometimes_ alleviate the problem by removing /dev/shm and recreating it with 777 permissions as suggested in [4], but that doesn't always work and it's not really a good solution in the long time. Since this problem affects many packages which use xsltproc for manpage processing, it would be quite important to have this issue resolved. Does anybody have the time and skills to look into this issue? Thanks, Adrian > [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=systemd&arch=sparc64&ver=228-2%2Bb1&stamp=1451533316 > [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736077#c9 > [3] https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/systemd_228-2_sparc64-20151231-1419.build > [4] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=750593#76 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
