[Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#1016562: fp-compiler-3.2.0: Fails to setup during install due to "Invalid floating point operation"

[Graham Ollis]

Package: fp-compiler-3.2.0
Version: 3.2.0+dfsg-12
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: plicease at cpan.org

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?

I was trying to install the Free Pascal Compiler on Debian 11 running under VMware Fusion on an Mac
with an M2 processor.  I tried to install using `sudo apt-get install fpc`.  The error that I got
during install was:

sandy% sudo apt-get install fpc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  fp-compiler-3.2.0 fpc-3.2.0
Suggested packages:
  lazarus
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  fp-compiler-3.2.0 fpc fpc-3.2.0
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/1,979 kB of archives.
After this operation, 12.2 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package fp-compiler-3.2.0:arm64.
(Reading database ... 274284 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../fp-compiler-3.2.0_3.2.0+dfsg-12_arm64.deb ...
Unpacking fp-compiler-3.2.0:arm64 (3.2.0+dfsg-12) ...
Selecting previously unselected package fpc-3.2.0.
Preparing to unpack .../fpc-3.2.0_3.2.0+dfsg-12_all.deb ...
Unpacking fpc-3.2.0 (3.2.0+dfsg-12) ...
Selecting previously unselected package fpc.
Preparing to unpack .../fpc_3.2.0+dfsg-12_all.deb ...
Unpacking fpc (3.2.0+dfsg-12) ...
Setting up fp-compiler-3.2.0:arm64 (3.2.0+dfsg-12) ...
An unhandled exception occurred at $0000000000470960:
EInvalidOp: Invalid floating point operation
  $0000000000470960
  $0000000000472FC0
  $0000000000472F04
  $0000000000470FA8
  $0000000000400EEC
  $0000000000402ACC
  $0000FFFF9ACA0218
  $0000000000400668

dpkg: error processing package fp-compiler-3.2.0:arm64 (--configure):
 installed fp-compiler-3.2.0:arm64 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 217
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of fpc-3.2.0:
 fpc-3.2.0 depends on fp-compiler-3.2.0 (>= 3.2.0+dfsg-12); however:
  Package fp-compiler-3.2.0:arm64 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package fpc-3.2.0 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of fpc:
 fpc depends on fpc-3.2.0 (= 3.2.0+dfsg-12); however:
  Package fpc-3.2.0 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package fpc (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 fp-compiler-3.2.0:arm64
 fpc-3.2.0
 fpc
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
   * What was the outcome of this action?
   * What outcome did you expect instead?

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-16-arm64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages fp-compiler-3.2.0 depends on:
ii  binutils               2.35.2-2
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.77
ii  fp-units-rtl-3.2.0     3.2.0+dfsg-12
ii  libc6                  2.31-13+deb11u3

Versions of packages fp-compiler-3.2.0 recommends:
ii  fp-utils-3.2.0  3.2.0+dfsg-12

Versions of packages fp-compiler-3.2.0 suggests:
ii  fp-docs-3.2.0  3.2.0+dfsg-12

-- debconf information:
  fp-compiler/rename_cfg: true
  fp-compiler/windres-select: Select manually
  fp-compiler/windres: