[fpc-pascal] Running FPC on a system that supports multiple architectures

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Sven Barth wrote:
> Am 05.10.2012 11:34, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd:
>> For information, it works, but I'm getting an error when it calls the
>> linker. If I link using a script it's fine:
> 
> It would help very much if you'd post the error that you get.

I posted the minimum to report (partial) success in case the problem was 
considered below the threshold of interest.

I'm compiling binutils 2.20 using

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/i486-linux i486-linux-gnu

etc., and then setting up symlinks

/usr/local/bin/i486-linux-as -> /usr/local/i486-linux/bin/as

etc. When I do a direct compilation I get

~$ fpc -XPi486-linux- test.pas
Free Pascal Compiler version 2.6.0 [2012/05/05] for i386
Copyright (c) 1993-2011 by Florian Klaempfl and others
Target OS: Linux for i386
Compiling test.pas
Linking test
test.pas(5,1) Error: Can't call the linker, switching to external linking
test.pas(5,1) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping
Fatal: Compilation aborted
Error: /usr/local/bin/ppc386 returned an error exitcode (normal if you 
did not specify a source file to be compiled)

If I use -vt I see

..
Searching file /usr/local/lib/fpc/2.6.0/I486-LINUX-LD... not found
Searching file /usr/local/bin/i486-linux-ld... found
Using util /usr/local/bin/i486-linux-ld
test.pas(5,1) Error: Can't call the linker, switching to external linking
test.pas(5,1) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping
Fatal: Compilation aborted
Error: /usr/local/bin/ppc386 returned an error exitcode (normal if you 
did not specify a source file to be compiled)

Nothing obviously useful in -vv output.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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