Jonas,<br><br>Sorry to but in, but I read this post and followed the link to the binutils problem you mentioned in your reply.<br>Is it possible the error message, "Can't call the linker,..." is the result of a bad/missing symlink and not the problem in binutils?<br>
<br>I have Ubuntu 9.04 desktop now but haven't installed FPC as yet. <br><br>Prince <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Jonas Maebe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonas.maebe@elis.ugent.be">jonas.maebe@elis.ugent.be</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On 24 Apr 2009, at 22:39, Alan Krause wrote:<br>
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I've installed ubuntu 9.04 in a VM to test it out, and have installed fpc<br>
2.2.4. It is always good to look before you leap, right?<br>
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Anyhow, I am trying to compile an existing project that works fine under<br>
Ubuntu 8.04. I can get all of the unit to compile, but when it comes time to<br>
link them together into a shared library, I get the following:<br>
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Linking libproj.so<br>
Error: Can't call the linker, switching to external linking<br>
Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping<br>
Fatal: Compilation aborted<br>
Error: /usr/local/bin/ppc386 returned an error exitcode (normal if you did<br>
not specify a source file to be compiled)<br>
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It's probably caused by this bug in binutils: <a href="https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471901" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471901</a><br>
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It has been fixed in the mean time, but only after binutils 2.19.1 was released (and I guess your Ubuntu comes either with 2.19 or 2.19.1 -- although the bug already existed in some 2.18.x versions as well.).<br>
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Jonas<br>
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