I have the same problem also in 18.04 with gcc 7.5 - it's a bug in binutils: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Binutils_2.32_upgrade_notes/elfutils_0.175:_unable_to

I have the same problem also in 18.04 with gcc 7.5 - it's a bug in binutils: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Binutils_2.32_upgrade_notes/elfutils_0.175:_unable_to_initialize_decompress_status_for_section_.debug_info https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Binutils_2.32_upgrade_notes/elf... I have been unable to find a backported package for 2.32 or better as a deb or ppa and there's no ways I'm installing binutils from source in case I clobber my build system. Any ideas?