Can't x-build ubuntu-system-settings with 1.0.4ubuntu1: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libapt-pkg.so: undefined reference to `std::__throw_out_of_range_fmt(char const*, ...)@GLIBCXX_3.4.20'

I just tried a cross-build of ubuntu-system-settings (a reverse dependency of libapt-pkg) on Utopic, and got apt 1.0.4ubuntu1 as part of this.

The build failed (full log attached) with this output

  /usr/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++ -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -std=c++0x -fno-permissive -pedantic -Wall -Wextra -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro CMakeFiles/tst-update.dir/tst_update.cpp.o CMakeFiles/tst-update.dir/__/__/__/plugins/system-update/update.cpp.o CMakeFiles/tst-update.dir/tst-update_automoc.cpp.o -o tst-update -rdynamic /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libQt5Qml.so.5.2.1 /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libQt5Quick.so.5.2.1 /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libQt5Core.so.5.2.1 /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libQt5DBus.so.5.2.1 /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libQt5Xml.so.5.2.1 /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libQt5Network.so.5.2.1 /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libQt5Test.so.5.2.1 -lapt-pkg /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libQt5Qml.so.5.2.1 /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libQt5Network.so.5.2.1 /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libQt5Gui.so.5.2.1 /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libQt5Core.so.5.2.1
  /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libapt-pkg.so: undefined reference to `std::__throw_out_of_range_fmt(char const*, ...)@GLIBCXX_3.4.20'
  collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

if I then enter the environment and downgrade apt only to the versions in utopic release (1.0.2ubuntu2) then it builds again.

You should be able to reproduce it by creating a cross-building chroot

$ mk-sbuild --target armhf utopic

and then trying to build current ubuntu-system-settings inside that.

$ sbuild --host=armhf -A -d utopic <blah.dsc>