Bug#473653: epstopdf is broken on SPARC
On 04.04.08 Thiemo Seufer (ths@networkno.de) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> > On 31.03.08 Thiemo Seufer (ths@networkno.de) wrote:
Hi,
> > > When run on sparc, epstopdf creates at least in some cases empty
> > > (zero-byte) files instead of proper PDFs. It is easily reproducible
> > > when trying to convert the attached file via:
> > >
> > > # epstopdf discriminating-functions.eps
> > >
> > > This causes an FTBFS of sbcl on the sparc buildd lebrun. I
> > > reproduced the same problem on sperger. Other architectures than
> > > sparc appear to be unaffected.
> > >
> > Could this be a subsequent error from #453903 and friends?
>
> Quite possibly so. I didn't analyze the failure beyond what I
> described. Hppa isn't supported by sbcl, so I didn't test on that
> architecture.
>
So please reproduce the problem on sparc (I don't have a Linux based
sparc at hand) and try to figure out if the script crashes when
handing over the job to gs.
Many thanks,
Hilmar
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