Bus error due to v9 VIS on v8 ?

Hello all,

I’ve been on a mission to get ghostscript-agpl (10.x) running on sparc.

By default, ghostscript has a lot of dependencies.  Due to it pulling in libcups by default, that needs gnutls amongst other crypto type libs.

If I build it like this, by default, I get this when trying to view a postscript file:

Starting program: /usr/pkg/bin/gs -sDEVICE=x11 golfer.eps

Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
0xeb0762b4 in _sparcv9_vis1_probe () from /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.15

Does that mean that something is looking for sparc v9 “stuff” and it’s (obviously) not there on my v8 machine ?

Could this be from the dependency chain from libcups/gnutls/etc ?

What would cause this ?  It says it’s a “probe” ?  I would think any kind of probe should be harmless - i.e. if the probe has a negative result carry on or at least exit gracefully ?

Thanks in advance for any insight on this.

PS: I’m building ghostscript again now without cups support, will see what that does...