Bug#354809: [Pkg-db-devel] Bug#354809: db4.4: FTBFS (ppc64): syntax error in VERSION script

[Florian Weimer]

* Andreas Jochens:

> Looking at the output of 'nm' I found that the symbols which are marked 
> with 'T' on other architectures have a 'D' on ppc64 instead. However, 
> there are also symbols which have a 'D' on other architectures and on 
> ppc64 as well. I do not know how to filter out the correct list of 
> symbols for the 'global:' section on ppc64.

This smells like a binutils bug.  The documentation is quite clear;

   * The symbol type.  At least the following types are used; others
     are, as well, depending on the object file format.  If lowercase,
     the symbol is local; if uppercase, the symbol is global (external).

     [...]

    `D'
          The symbol is in the initialized data section.

     [...]

    `T'
          The symbol is in the text (code) section.

Or is the ppc64 documentation different?