Scilab compiling problem

[Martin Costabel <costabel@wanadoo.fr>]

Since I had scilab running on linuxppc-R5 a long time ago, I wanted to
give the src.rpm from the redhat powertools directory a try. After a
little tweaking, it compiles OK and goes almost all the way through the
process of building the binary rpm.

Right at the end, it stops after the following lines

+ cd /var/tmp/scilab-root/usr/bin
+ ln -s ../lib/scilab-2.4.1/bin/scilab scilab
+ exit 0
Processing files: scilab
Finding provides...
Finding requires...
BFD: /var/tmp/scilab-root/usr/lib/scilab-2.4.1/bin/SEpsf: invalid string
offset 2147554304 >= 256 for section `'
BFD: /var/tmp/scilab-root/usr/lib/scilab-2.4.1/bin/SEpsf: invalid string
offset 2147561472 >= 256 for section `'
BFD: /var/tmp/scilab-root/usr/lib/scilab-2.4.1/bin/SEpsf: invalid string
offset 2147569664 >= 256 for section `'
BFD: /var/tmp/scilab-root/usr/lib/scilab-2.4.1/bin/SEpsf: invalid string
offset 2147612672 >= 256 for section `'
BFD: /var/tmp/scilab-root/usr/lib/scilab-2.4.1/bin/SEpsf: invalid string
offset 2147706880 >= 256 for section `'

After this it sits there and does nothing until killed by ctrl-C.

Does anyone know what this means? What is BFD?
Is this a bug in a) rpm b) binutils c) egcs d) somewhere else?
The file .../SEpsf is a binary which seems to run OK. 

--
Martin


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Martin

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