Fink bootstrap fails under macOS 10.15b9

Hello Fink Developers,

I wanted to alert you that Fink now fails its initial build from source, via the “bootstrap” script. What appears to be happening is a low-level incompatibility in the standard C-library (/usr/lib/libc.dylib -> /usr/lib/system/libsystem_c.dylib) with write-after-read (getc/putc) not working properly, and ftell providing the wrong byte location in the test stream file. This trips up ‘configure’, when gzip is trying to build, so that the entire bootstrap build fails.

The folks over @ HomeBrew noted the issue here: https://discourse.brew.sh/t/mac-os-10-15-catalina-issues/5001/24

Until Apple fixes this issue, there’s little I think we can do to work around this bug…

Cheers,
John L.

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