[fpc-pascal] Linking issue in Ubuntu 9.04 (32 bit)

[Prince Riley]

Alan

Thanks so much Alan.. another landmine I can try to avoid with 9.04 ..
appreciate your help

Prince

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Alan Krause <alank at shermanloan.com> wrote:

> Jonas,
>
> It does indeed ship with 2.19.1. I've had this same problem in the past,
> and have had to stick with ubuntu 8.04 for my development box due to this
> problem.
>
> Prince - if you execute fpc with the verbose option (-va), it actually
> displays the search for a linker to use, which in my instance is found in
> /usr/bin/ld and listed as "found".
>
> Alan
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be>wrote:
>
>>
>> On 24 Apr 2009, at 23:28, Prince Riley wrote:
>>
>>  Sorry to but in, but I read this post and followed the link to the
>>> binutils
>>> problem you mentioned in your reply.
>>> 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?
>>>
>>
>> It's indeed a generic error message. To see what really happens, you have
>> to compile with the "-Cn" command line parameter and then execute the
>> generated ./ppas.sh script.
>>
>> The problem is most likely the fact that ld crashes though, as I'm pretty
>> sure that Ubuntu 9.04 ships with binutils 2.19.x
>
>
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