On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 8:32 PM, Stephen R. van den Berg <s...@cuci.nl> wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>>The simplest workaround is to delete the .o file in question after you
>>install. I still haven't managed to track down exactly what the
>>problem is, or make a minimal testcase that highlights it. It appears
>>to be a mandelbug.
>
> Well, fast forward, bleeding edge pike 8.1.9 just retrieved from git:
>
> /usr/local/pike/8.1.9/lib/modules/Crypto.pmod/Random.pmod.o:-: Warning: 
> Decode failed: Error while decoding 
> program(/usr/local/pike/8.1.9/lib/modules/Crypto.pmod/Random.pmod:23):
> Bad function identifier offset for random_string:function(int(0..2147483647) 
> : string(8bit)): 3 != 0
>
> For me the problem seems annoyingly consistent.

It's perfectly consistent for me, too, in the sense that every
installation triggers it. But when I tried to create a minimal
installer that JUST dumps this file, I couldn't make the bug behave
itself. There's something broken in the actual installation, but I
can't pin down exactly what.

ChrisA

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