[fpc-devel] Build on Fedora-Extras buildsystem failes for ppc

[Jonas Maebe]

On 21 dec 2005, at 12:41, Joost van der Sluis wrote:

> I have another problem to get fpc 2.0.2 compiled on the buildsystem of
> Fedora Extras.
>
> Maybe that the ppc-ppl can give some hints? The buildsystem consist  
> of a
> few power5-proc's. But there seems to be a linker-problem?
>
> Here's the log:
> http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/logs/fedora-development-extras/2085-
> fpc-2.0.2-2.fc5/ppc/build.log

That build log shows that they are creating a smartlinked rtl. In  
that case, you get an enormous amount of .o files which have to be  
archived together into one .a file (using the "ar" utility).  
Apparently the maximum command line length is too short. I'm not sure  
how to solve that.


Jonas