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[Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Folks, I merged a removal of an older workaround prior to the intended 
merge time.  This was the -Bsymbolic patch from [1].  It looks like it 
was a bug in the linker that no longer exists but it also looks like we 
never got a full resolution on it.  I removed it because it prevents 
throwing exceptions back from a DSO, which we'll need for cleaning 
adding internal STEP processing without also catching the OCE segfaults. 
 Jon helpfully checked that it doesn't cause issues under Arch (where it 
originally was reported).

That said, if it causes any issues, I'm happy to revert it.  I know a 
fair amount of work went into figuring out that bug and I don't want to 
recreate that work.  I had meant to hold it for the official merge 
window but I lost track of my branches while fixing a different bug.

Best-
Seth


[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1322354