Help with codeblocks ppc64el specific FTBFS

Vincent Cheng <[email protected]> Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:04:53 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc
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Hello,

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codeblocks/25.03+dfsg-2 [1] was the last version built successfully on
ppc64el (timestamp 2025-04-30 21:52:21).
codeblocks/25.03+dfsg-2+b1 [2] was the first build that started
failing (binNMU with no source changes, timestamp 2026-01-16
14:45:49), and all subsequent builds have failed with the same linker
error.

As far as I can tell, the error appears to be the following:

/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/15/libgcc.a(float128-ifunc.o):(.data+0x0):
undefined reference to `__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

src:codeblocks is not failing on any other arch so this appears to be
a ppc64el toolchain specific issue, which is outside of my area of
expertise. Does anyone have suggestions for how to fix this? As
another data point, it looks like the package builds fine on Ubuntu
ppc64el, so this is somehow specific to Debian's toolchain? Thanks for
any tips/pointers!

Regards,
Vincent

[1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=codeblocks&arch=ppc64el&ver=25.03%2Bdfsg-2&stamp=1746049941&raw=0
[2] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=codeblocks&arch=ppc64el&ver=25.03%2Bdfsg-2%2Bb1&stamp=1768574749&raw=0