That build log is completely useless for determining why the build failed.  I
have no access to a PPC machine and cannot investigate any further until the
failure log has more information than "build failed: there is more information
in a local file that you cannot read".

Well, I'm attaching a build log thats not completely useless now then.
Basically, software builds mostly fine (warnings are aplenty), but come to a
test for archive creation, it just segfaults on ppc. Where it breaks:

======= TESTING: Simple Archive creation =======
Test 1: Archive creation 1
Test 1: PASS
Test 2: Archive creation 2 (with listing)
/home/byte/cvs/tla/devel/tla-1.3.2/src/tla/tests/test-framework: line 26: 11130
Segmentation fault      ${builddir}/../tla/tla "$@"
make[3]: *** [tests-timestamp] Error 139
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/byte/cvs/tla/devel/tla-1.3.2/src/=build/tla/tests'
make[2]: *** [test] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/byte/cvs/tla/devel/tla-1.3.2/src/=build/tla'
make[1]: *** [test] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/byte/cvs/tla/devel/tla-1.3.2/src/=build'
error: Bad exit status from /home/byte/rpm/tmp/rpm-tmp.47077 (%check)

Created attachment 114785 [details]
full build log for ppc failure

very large, unbziped, is ~4+mb

Backtrace from gdb for the crash

(gdb) bt
#0  0x10061ca4 in rel_add_records (table=0xffb4d1e8)
    at /root/tla/devel/tla-1.3.2/src/tla/libawk/relational.c:340
#1  0x1005f6d8 in directory_files (path=Variable "path" is not available.
)
    at /root/tla/devel/tla-1.3.2/src/tla/libfsutils/dir-listing.c:29
#2  0x1005415c in pfs_directory_files (p=Variable "p" is not available.
)
    at /root/tla/devel/tla-1.3.2/src/tla/libarch/pfs-fs.c:247
#3  0x100392d8 in arch_pfs_directory_files (pfs=Variable "pfs" is not available.)
    at /root/tla/devel/tla-1.3.2/src/tla/libarch/pfs.c:258
#4  0x100398f0 in arch_pfs_update_listing_file (session=0x100f8208,
    dir=0x100f8218 "test-archive2/=meta-info")
    at /root/tla/devel/tla-1.3.2/src/tla/libarch/pfs.c:389
#5  0x10039fe0 in arch_pfs_pfs_make_archive (
    name=0x100f80f8 "jane",
    uri=0x100f8130
"/root/tla/devel/tla-1.3.2/src/=build/tla/tests/workdir/test-2-workdir/test-archive2",
version=0x100f80d8 "Bazaar archive format 1 0",
    mirror_of=Variable "mirror_of" is not available.
) at /root/tla/devel/tla-1.3.2/src/tla/libarch/pfs.c:186
#6  0x48022442 in ?? ()
#7  0x10059a60 in arch_pfs_make_archive (name=Variable "name" is not available.
)
    at /root/tla/devel/tla-1.3.2/src/tla/libarch/archive-pfs.c:221
#8  0x10048ea4 in arch_make_archive (
    name=0x100f80f8 "jane",
    location=0x100f8130
"/root/tla/devel/tla-1.3.2/src/=build/tla/tests/workdir/test-2-workdir/test-archive2",
mirror_of=0x0, dot_listing_lossage=1,
    signed_archive=0, tla_archive=Variable "tla_archive" is not available.
)
    at /root/tla/devel/tla-1.3.2/src/tla/libarch/archive.c:78
#9  0x10013984 in arch_cmd_make_archive (program_name=Variable "program_name" is
not available.
)
    at /root/tla/devel/tla-1.3.2/src/tla/libarch/cmd-make-archive.c:246
#10 0x48000442 in ?? ()
#11 0x10002ca0 in main (argc=6, argv=Variable "argv" is not available.
)
    at /root/tla/devel/tla-1.3.2/src/tla/tla/tla.c:84

1.3.3-3 built fine on all archs about 6 weeks ago.