PyInstaller failed in IBM System P installed with Ubuntu 14.04 and CentOS 7.2

[shane-zhang]

I am trying to bundle an python script using PyInstaller, my platform is IBM System P equipped with Power8 LE CPU, and the OS is Ubuntu 14.04.

After installing from pip and also git, my script still could not be bundled.

The log says:

4346 INFO: checking EXE
4346 INFO: Building EXE because out00-EXE.toc is non existent
4346 INFO: Building EXE from out00-EXE.toc
4346 INFO: Appending archive to ELF section in EXE /home/shane/build/b/b
4368 DEBUG: objcopy returned 1
4368 DEBUG:
4369 DEBUG: objcopy: Unable to recognise the format of the input file `/home/shane/build/b/b'

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/pyinstaller", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('PyInstaller==3.3.dev0-gd25657e', 'console_scripts', 'pyinstaller')()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PyInstaller-3.3.dev0_gd25657e-py2.7.egg/PyInstaller/__main__.py", line 90, in run
    run_build(pyi_config, spec_file, **vars(args))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PyInstaller-3.3.dev0_gd25657e-py2.7.egg/PyInstaller/__main__.py", line 46, in run_build
    PyInstaller.building.build_main.main(pyi_config, spec_file, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PyInstaller-3.3.dev0_gd25657e-py2.7.egg/PyInstaller/building/build_main.py", line 788, in main
    build(specfile, kw.get('distpath'), kw.get('workpath'), kw.get('clean_build'))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PyInstaller-3.3.dev0_gd25657e-py2.7.egg/PyInstaller/building/build_main.py", line 734, in build
    exec(text, spec_namespace)
  File "<string>", line 26, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PyInstaller-3.3.dev0_gd25657e-py2.7.egg/PyInstaller/building/api.py", line 407, in __init__
    self.__postinit__()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PyInstaller-3.3.dev0_gd25657e-py2.7.egg/PyInstaller/building/datastruct.py", line 161, in __postinit__
    self.assemble()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PyInstaller-3.3.dev0_gd25657e-py2.7.egg/PyInstaller/building/api.py", line 564, in assemble
    raise SystemError("objcopy Failure: %s" % stderr)
SystemError: objcopy Failure: objcopy: Unable to recognise the format of the input file `/home/shane/build/b/b'

It is just a simple "Hello world" script.

Update:
CentOS 7.2 also got the same error.

[htgoebel]

Please check the file-type of /home/shane/build/b/b and whether it is a valid file. Looks like objcopy is not able to handle this file-type. Maybe you'll need to contact your IBM support on this issue.

[htgoebel]

I'm closing this as "invalid" since I think this is an operation system problem. If your investigations reveal some PyInstaller issue, feel free to re-open this issue.

[lubinsz]

Hi shane-Git ,

I found the same issue on ppc64le platform.
This issue was caused by the existed pre-compiled bootloaders.
You should clean all the existed pre-compiled bootloaders, and re-generate it.

Please see the url(http://pyinstaller.readthedocs.io/en/stable/bootloader-building.html) as more reference.

Or you can use my method:
1, git clone https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller.git
2, cd pyinstaller && git checkout v3.1
3, cd bootloader
4, python ./waf distclean all --no-lsb
5, python waf configure --no-lsb build install

That's all.