qtmir rebuild fails with "assertion fail ../../bfd/elf32-i386.c:5245"

[Michał Sawicz]

Trying to rebuild qtmir in xenial with new binutils results in:

/usr/bin/ld: BFD (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.25.51.20151022 assertion fail ../../bfd/elf32-i386.c:5245

See i386 failures in autopkgtest:

http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/q/qtmir/xenial/i386/

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: binutils 2.25.51.20151022-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-16.19-generic 4.2.3
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-16-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Oct 26 13:19:10 2015
Dependencies:
 gcc-5-base 5.2.1-22ubuntu5
 libc6 2.21-0ubuntu4
 libgcc1 1:5.2.1-22ubuntu5
 zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2ubuntu4
SourcePackage: binutils
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

binutils 2.25.51.20151022-0ubuntu3 has been uploaded with an upstream fix for this issue. However, while it fixed the qtmir autopkgtest (http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/q/qtmir/xenial/i386/), the fwupdate package is still failing to build (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fwupdate/0.4+git20151015.081427-0ubuntu3/+build/8194112).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package binutils - 2.25.51.20151022-0ubuntu3

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binutils (2.25.51.20151022-0ubuntu3) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Fix PR ld/19171, taken from the trunk. LP: #1510067.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Mon, 26 Oct 2015 18:17:45 +0200