2.1.9: bug on ia64 architecture

[Ryurick Marius Hristev]

Hello all,

It the view of the recent security issues with cfengine, I've tried to
upgrade from 2.1.6 to 2.1.9 on an IA64 machine (Altix 3000)

However I found something which looks like a bug:

On the client side (IA64) I get (cfagent -v):

[...]
cfengine:: image exists but destination type is silly (file/dir/link doesn't 
match)
cfengine:: source=, dest=/var/cfengine/inputs/cfagent.conf
[...]

(note the empty source)

On the server side (IA32) I get (cfservd -d2):

[...]
CompareLocalChecksums(t ^? ~YR^M^H {^? ^V,MD5=d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e) 
                                         
ChecksumChanged: key t ^? ~YR^M^H {^? ^V with data 
MD5=d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e                                  
Direct comparison (no db)                                                       
                                  
ChecksumFile(m, t ^? ~YR^M^H {^? ^V                          
t ^? ~YR^M^H {^? ^V can't be opened
[...]

instead of something like:

[...]
CompareLocalChecksums(/var/cfengine/master/config/cfagent.conf,MD5=646d633ec098b700e6071c003fd2b336)
              
ChecksumChanged: key /var/cfengine/master/config/cfagent.conf with data 
MD5=646d633ec098b700e6071c003fd2b336      
Direct comparison (no db)                                                       
                                  
ChecksumFile(m,/var/cfengine/master/config/cfagent.conf)                        
                                  
Checksums matched ok                                                            
                                  
Transaction Send[t 9][Packed text]
[...]

Note the 't ^? ~YR^M^H {^? ^V' odity (taxt taken from vim,
actually ^ and ~ marks digraphs) which is actually:
74 ec 7f bf 99 52 0d 08 f0 7b 7f bf 16

Looks like a bug to me, does anybody have a solution ?

(note: The IA32 client works OK, the 2.1.6 worked OK)

Cheers, 
-- 
Ryurick M. Hristev -- Systems Administrator (Unix)
University of Queensland -- ITS Dept.
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