chromium-71.0.3578.98

I am using a distribution called linuxfromscratch that like slackware, builds the whole operating system from scratch using stable tar archives.

This version goes all the way through the build process to the end and fails at the linking stage:

[32819/32819] LINK ./chrome
FAILED: chrome 
python "../../build/toolchain/gcc_link_wrapper.py" --output="./chrome" -- g++ -pie -Wl,--version-script=../../build/linux/chrome.map -fPIC -Wl,-z,noexecstack -Wl,-z,now -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,defs -Wl,--as-needed -m64 -Wl,-O2 -Wl,--gc-sections -rdynamic -nodefaultlibs -Wl,-rpath-link=. -Wl,--disable-new-dtags -o "./chrome" -Wl,--start-group @"./chrome.rsp"  -Wl,--end-group   -lc -lgcc_s -lm -lrt -ldl -lpthread -lX11 -lX11-xcb -lxcb -lXcomposite -lXcursor -lXdamage -lXext -lXfixes -lXi -lXrender -lXtst -lgmodule-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -licui18n -licuuc -licudata -lnss3 -lnssutil3 -lsmime3 -lsoftokn3 -lplds4 -lplc4 -lnspr4 -lcups -lz -lcrypt -lxml2 -lexpat -ldbus-1 -latomic -levent -lXss -lwebpdemux -lwebpmux -lwebp -lfreetype -ljpeg -luuid -lharfbuzz -lXrandr -lresolv -lgio-2.0 -lavcodec -lavformat -lavutil -lopus -lasound -lpulse -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lpci -latk-1.0 -latk-bridge-2.0 -latspi -lFLAC -lgtk-3 -lgdk-3 -lcairo-gobject -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lxslt 
/usr/bin/ld: obj/components/services/heap_profiling/libheap_profiling.a: error adding symbols: malformed archive
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

I have no idea if this is another thin_archive error as was the case with one of the earlier versions in the stable-70 branch or exactly how to fix this.

I have used both google and bing to search the web for some clue as to how to fix this with zero relevant results.  I also tried the last stable version and got the same results.  As this takes so long to compile from source, it should work the first time with no patches required, but it seems that googles definition of stable is different to most.  The correct usage of the word "stable" is when the code cleanly compiles and you have a binary that is capable of being used to surf the net.

Regards,

Christopher.