[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#993843: Bug#993843: zsh-static segfaults immediately

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2021-09-07 13:31:36 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
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> zsh-static is linked statically. What does it have to do with libc.so.6?
> If it expects some functions from libc.so.6 and others that had been
> linked statically, then with the upgrade of libc6 to 2.32-1, I think
> that this is likely to break.

Indeed, a rebuild solves the issue. My patch at

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=993861#15

may be needed due to a FTBFS if libncursesw5-dev is not installed
(now provided by libncurses-dev).

I suppose that the libc6 upgrade was the reason, though I didn't
do a test to check.

A rebuild doesn't really solve the bug, since at the next libc6
upgrade, a similar issue may occur. The use of libc.so.6 should
be removed completely. Now, I don't know whether the libc.so.6
is due to the build rules, binutils, or something else.

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