Re: port-sgimips/41753: perl5 build stops with "ma_05_t.o: file not recognized: File format not recognized" on sgi O2

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-sgimips/41753; it has been noted by 
GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: port-sgimips/41753: perl5 build stops with "ma_05_t.o: file
        not recognized: File format not recognized" on sgi O2
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:00:17 +0000

 On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:20:04AM +0000, Christian Degenkolb wrote:
  >  and
  >  # ls -alh ma_05_t.o
  >  -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  187K Jul 20 02:11 ma_05_t.o
 
 Hrm. Well, that rules out the easy case :(
 
  >  >  If not, what type of file is it? ("file ma_05_t.o")
  >  
  >  # file ma_05_t.o
  >  ma_05_t.o: data
 
 ...and this isn't, unfortunately, very illuminating.
 
 Can you examine the file to see if it's obviously corrupt in some way?
 (e.g. contains all zeros, is a copy of /etc/passwd, etc.)
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost