Okay, this one has me stumped. Any chromium package I build through rawhide refuses to render most of the strings.

At first, I thought this was gcc 11, but then I noticed that the first build with this problem was built before GCC 11 landed in rawhide (the compiler was the same n-v-r as the one in Fedora 33). Next, I thought it must be due to a newer system component that Chromium uses dynamically, but I was able to disprove that by installing the Fedora 33 build (same version-release) into a Rawhide VM, and it works fine. Google Chrome also works fine in rawhide.

It seems that this must be something that is contained within chromium, that when built in rawhide, builds broken.

Here's a screenshot of what it looks like:
https://twitter.com/spotfoss/status/1338918235719299072/photo/1

Note that some text strings are rendering (in the UI, in the "search box"), but most of them are not (the "HTML5Test" text below the icon, all of the strings in the developer console).

Chromium has a lot of bundled components, so it is usually fairly resistant to system changes. There are no differences between how Chromium builds (within the RPM spec) on Fedora 33 and Rawhide. It also doesn't use %{optflags}, so the compiler flags are equivalent.

Could this be due to some quirk of binutils in the way chromium gets linked in rawhide? Is there something else unique to how packages are built in rawhide right now? Are any other rawhide packages having similar string issues?

Here are some builds for comparison:

Fedora 34: Chromium 87.0.4280.88 (built against GCC 11):
  https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=57595738
Fedora 34: Chromium 87.0.4280.88 (built against GCC 10, same as Fedora 33):
  https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1655036
Fedora 33: Chromium 87.0.4280.88 (build against GCC 10, but actually works in rawhide):
  https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1655036
Fedora 34: Chromium 88.0.4324.27 (beta version of chromium, also broken)
  https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=56977476

Thanks in advance,
~spot