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I did nevertheless some more digging: the problem seems clearly to be a 
bug in the "fprintAperture" procedure of gerber.c:

The new version prints floating-point values in gerber output using the 
%mi format (locale dependant radix decimal "point"):
- for GUI (interactive) output, pcb apparently forces this to a ".",
- in non-GUI mode pcb really outputs the current locale for the decimal 
point is (a "," in my case - Austria).

As a consequence and if the locale is different from the ".", the Gerber 
files produced by command-line "pcb -x gerber" have a comma where gerber 
format certainly expects a dot).

My old version of pcb uses the old %f format - no problem there. I will 
have to find out how to submit a bug on pcb.