[Pkg-erlang-devel] Bug#939804: erlang: FTBFS on hppa - escript: exception error: bad argument

[John David Anglin]

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:

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
     called as re:split(<<"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" ?>\n<!DOCTYPE erlref SYSTEM \"erlref.dtd\" [\n  <!ENTITY records\n  '<seealso marker=\"diameter_dict#MESSAGE_RECORDS\">diameter_dict(4)</seealso>'>\n  <!ENTITY typ"...>>,
                        "\n",[])
escript: exception error: bad argument
  in function  re:split/3
     called as re:split(<<"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" ?>\n<!DOCTYPE comref SYSTEM \"comref.dtd\" [\n  <!ENTITY dictionary\n  '<seealso marker=\"diameter_dict\">dictionary file</seealso>'>\n  <!ENTITY % also SYSTEM \"se"...>>,
                        "\n",[])
make[1]: *** [/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/make/otp_release_targets.mk:47: ../xml/diameter_codec.xml] Error 127
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

I've tried to debug this error but so far I haven't had much luck.  There
is a hppa porter box.

Regards,
Dave Anglin

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers buildd-unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: hppa (parisc64)

Kernel: Linux 4.14.142+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)