Can't build a working package for texlive-texmf

[Mateusz Piotrowski]

On 20/04/2021 14:36, D'Arcy Cain wrote:
> I have been struggling with this for months.  Has anyone else seen this?
>
> I have a network of servers and I like to build packages from source.  I don't use Poudriere.  I 
> have a series of scripts that determine what needs to be built on the package server.  I currently 
> have 1,152 packages built and they all seem to work just fine except for lilypond. Every time I 
> try to install it on another server pkg dumps core.
>
> I started installing the dependencies and eventually found that it is actually texlive-texmf that 
> is failing.
>
> Over the last few months I have rebuilt every package and still get this core dump.  I just 
> recently upgraded to FreeBSD 12.2p6 and started over. I removed all packages except pkg which I 
> rebuilt and forced an upgrade.  I removed all of the distfiles from the ports server and all the 
> files in /var/cache/pkg on the clients.
>
> Same problem.
>
> The one thing I notice is that the package is an order of magnitude larger than the second biggest 
> file.  Am I having a memory issue?
>
> I guess my next step is to install gdb and build pkg with symbols unless someone can point me to 
> an easy answer.

Just a note: you may have a debugger already installed as /usr/bin/lldb. Also, pkg, in contrast to 
other binaries, is not stripped, so the chances are that you are not going to have to rebuild anything.

Cheers,

Mateusz