[fpc-pascal] Warning for anybody else using Linux Mint Debian ('Betsy')

[brian]

Upgrading to Lazarus 1.6.4 and FPC 3.0.2 as obtained from SourceForge
breaks things irretrievably on Linux Mint Debian 64-bit running on an
AMD Phenom x2 system. I first noticed this when trying to rebuild the
Lazarus IDE generated the following error

> /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/fpc/3.0.2/units/x86_64-linux/rtl/cprt0.o: unrecognized relocation (0x2a) in section `.text'
> /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
> /usr/share/lazarus/1.6.4/ide/lazarus.pp(154,1) Error: (9013) Error while linking
> /usr/share/lazarus/1.6.4/ide/lazarus.pp(154,1) Fatal: (10026) There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping
> Fatal: (1018) Compilation aborted
> make[2]: *** [lazarus] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [idepkg] Error 2
> make: *** [idepkg] Error 2

Trying to build a simple 'Hello, World' from the 3.0.2 FP IDE also
failed with a linker error.

There are reports of this error "unrecognized relocation (0x2a) in
section `.text'" with the *testing* version of plain Debian, but Betsy
is based on Jessie (stable), NOT testing, and the library versions on
this system *are* the ones from stable, I checked the versions.

Downgrading to FPC 3.0.0 and Lazarus 1.6.2-1 means that everything
works again as expected.

I don't pretend to understand what has happened to cause this error on
a system based on stable rather than testing, but as far as users with
my configuration are concerned, there appears to be a barrier to
upgrading, at least at the moment.


Brian.