[fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.4 ld error on opensuse 13.2

[Florian Klämpfl]

Am 09.07.2019 um 19:46 schrieb Nikolai Zhubr:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've just discovered fpc-3.0.4-1.x86_64.rpm does not quite work on opensuse 13.2. That is, linking helloworld fails with:
> 
> fpc hello.pas
> Free Pascal Compiler version 3.0.4 [2017/10/02] for x86_64
> Copyright (c) 1993-2017 by Florian Klaempfl and others
> Target OS: Linux for x86-64
> Compiling hello.pas
> Linking hello
> /usr/bin/ld: warning: link.res contains output sections; did you forget -T?
> /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib64/fpc/3.0.4/units/x86_64-linux/rtl/prt0.o: unrecognized relocation (0x2a) in section `.text'
> /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
> hello.pas(7,1) Error: Error while linking
> hello.pas(7,1) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping
> Fatal: Compilation aborted
> Error: /usr/bin/ppcx64 returned an error exitcode
> 
> Meanwhile, fpc-2.6.4-1.x86_64.rpm does work fine.
> 
> /usr/bin/ld --version
> GNU ld (GNU Binutils; openSUSE 13.2) 2.24.0.20140403-6.1
> 
> Of course this ld is pretty old, so my first thought was that I need some newer binutils. However, I've found
> fpcbuild-3.0.4.zip contains 2.22 version (for windows, but anyway), and also on windows I use cross-binutils 2.16 and
> 2.31 (and they work fine and produce perfectly valid linux-i386 and linux-arm executables), so now I'm somewhat confused
> about what to do next. AFAICS docs does not explicitely mention any particular binutils requirement. I could
> repackage/patch/replace stock binutils package, but because I don't understand the exact reason for the error, I thought
> I'd ask for advice first.

As windows uses a different binary format, it is not possible to judge from windows to linux. I am pretty convinced, a
newer ld might help.