[fpc-devel]Linking problems with fpc cvs

[Michael.VanCanneyt at Wisa.be]

On Tue, 6 May 2003, Mattias Gaertner wrote:

> On Tue, 6 May 2003 15:03:36 +0200 (CEST)
> Michael.VanCanneyt at wisa.be wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 6 May 2003, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a linking problem with the current fpc cvs (fixed branch) under
> > > linux.
> > >
> > > For example doing a 'make linuxzip' results in the following linker
> > > error:
> > >
> > > [...]
> > > make -C net all
> > > make[5]: Entering directory `/home/[...]/108/fpc/fcl/net'
> > > [...]
> > > /home/[...]/108/fpc/compiler/ppc386 -XX -CX -Xs -OG2p3 -n -S2h
> > > -Fu/home/[...]/108/fpc/rtl/linux
> > > -Fu/home/[...]/108/fpc/packages/base/netdb-Fu/home/[...]/108/fpc/packag
> > > es/base/libasync -FE../linux -di386 -dRELEASE mkxmlrpc.pp
> > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find libppaswrite.a
> > > mkxmlrpc.pp(774) Error: Error while linking
> > > make[5]: *** [mkxmlrpc] Error 1
> > > make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/[...]/108/fpc/fcl/net'
> > > make[4]: *** [net_all] Error 2
> > > [...]
> > >
> > >
> > > The created fcl/linux/ppas.sh script:
> > >
> > > #!/bin/sh
> > > DoExitAsm ()
> > > { echo "An error occurred while assembling $1"; exit 1; }
> > > DoExitLink ()
> > > { echo "An error occurred while linking $1"; exit 1; }
> > > echo Linking ../linux/mkxmlrpc
> > > /usr/bin/ld    -s -L. -o ../linux/mkxmlrpc ../linux/link.res
> > > if [ $? != 0 ]; then DoExitLink ../linux/mkxmlrpc; fi
> > >
> > > The libppaswrite.a is in fcl/linux/, the same directory where ppash.sh
> > > is. The ppas.sh is executed with the same working directory as the
> > > compiler. Therefore the -L. can't find the library.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> >
> > Yes, remove the -XX -CX -Xs options.
> > Then it should work fine (At least here it does).
>
> Thx. I will try. Although I don't know where they were added.
> Maybe the docs know ...

Probably setting RELEASE=1 does this.

Michael.