Bug#625522: pre-2.13 glibc segfaults at build time (Re: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg)

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Steve M. Robbins wrote:

> I was careless in my initial report; I should have specified that I
> tried rebuilding the *old* glibc and got a segfault.

I can reproduce this now.  The fix is glibc-2.13~30 (Remove `.ctors'
and `.dtors' output sections, 2010-12-24); tested by cherry-picking on
top of glibc-2.12.

If I understand correctly, binutils versions before 2.21.51.03 or
so[1] would not trigger it, while later binutils versions will.  

> Hope this clarifies the issue somewhat.

Yes, thank you.

[1] Add SORT_BY_INIT_PRIORITY, 2010-12-15