[Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#826300: Bug#826300: Share knowledge on fpc and powerpc issue

[Graham Inggs]

I think Alexander is on to something here:

> Look like https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1570055 is the same bug
> (or at least related) and the bug is in glibs.
>
> 1) segfault during program exit in _IO_wsetb after output to stdout
> 2) same platform powerpc, same glibs version 2.23 but not related to
> freepascal.

Looking at the Steve's changelog for the fix:

do not pass a version script when
+    building executables; this is meant for libraries, and its use appears to
+    be breaking the build on powerpc (probably due to a toolchain regression)

This reminds me of what Adam said of the problem at debconf.  IIRC,
doing something to executables that should only be done to libraries.

I also understood that many of the executables (if not all?) that were
built with the broken version of fpc would be broken.
So fpcmkcfg-3.0.0 is just one of many that will crash, and avoiding
the crash there is not fixing the problem.