Package: libc6 Severity: normal Hi. I had
libc6 = 2.19-22 binutils = 2.25-4 and all was well. Then I upgraded to libc6 = 2.21-4 (currently latest in sid). As a result, even the most basic build-time linking would fail. For instance, with a trivial hello-world program: $ gcc-5 -o tst tst.c /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/crti.o: unrecognized relocation (0x2a) in section `.init' /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status This would happen with gcc-5 and with gcc-4.9. Downgrading libc6 would fix it. After some fiddling I realized that upgrading to binutils = 2.25.90.20151209-1 (currently latest in sid) fixes it. I.e. with the latest libc6 and the latest binutils packages things work. Can the broken combination be prevented with some Conflicts: tags? Currently this is a trap for the unwary.
