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

[Mattias Gaertner]

> brian <brian at meadows.pair.com> hat am 8. März 2017 um 00:16 geschrieben:
>[...]
> > /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
>[...]
> 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.

You are not alone:
http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=31490

Mattias