[Bug 1838014] Re: random segfaults in gawk on ppc64el xenial, gawk 1:4.1.3+dfsg-0.1

[Colin Ian King]

Just installed today's bionic ISO from
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/384/builds/197394/downloads,
awk segment faults when I log in. See attached screen shot.

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Title:
  random segfaults in gawk on ppc64el xenial, gawk 1:4.1.3+dfsg-0.1

Status in gawk package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in gawk source package in Xenial:
  New
Status in gawk source package in Bionic:
  New

Bug description:
  When building fwts 19.07.00 in a VM or a chroot on Xenial ppc64el, I'm
  seeing segfaults in awk:

  ./configure: line 10171: 15840 Done                    $LD --help 2>&1
       15842 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) | $EGREP ': supported targets:.* elf' > /dev/null

  awk: cmd. line:1: (FILENAME=- FNR=1) fatal error: internal error:
  segfault

  I've also seen segfaults in grep, so I think this may be a recent
  dependency change.

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