I am trying to do a fresh rebuild on a Centos 6.8 box - so I copied Modern Pascal over, installed 3.0.4.1 from freemirror... and I get:

Linking modernpascal_v2
/usr/bin/ld: warning: link.res contains output sections; did you forget -T? /usr/bin/ld: BFD version 2.20.51.0.2-5.44.el6 20100205 internal error, line 443 in bfd_get_reloc_size

/usr/bin/ld: Please report this bug.

Error: Error while linking
Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping Fatal: Compilation aborted
Error: /usr/bin/ppcx64 returned an error exitcode

Can someone help so I can get this build tested this weekend??

Regards
Ozz

Ozz Nixon wrote

I am trying to do a fresh rebuild on a Centos 6.8 box - so I copied Modern Pascal over, installed 3.0.4.1 from freemirror... and I get: Linking modernpascal_v2

Don't you think you  might be asking in the wrong place?

Ralf

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NOPE - FPC is the compiler for my Interpreter....

did a simple test:

"test.pp" [New] 9L, 94C written
mp3]# fpc test.pp
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 test.pp
Linking test
/usr/bin/ld: warning: link.res contains output sections; did you forget -T? /usr/bin/ld: BFD version 2.20.51.0.2-5.44.el6 20100205 internal error, line 443 in bfd_get_reloc_size

/usr/bin/ld: Please report this bug.

test.pp(9,1) Error: Error while linking
test.pp(9,1) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping
Fatal: Compilation aborted
Error: /usr/bin/ppcx64 returned an error exitcode

On Sun, February 3, 2019 08:40, Ozz Nixon wrote:

Hi Ozz,

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/usr/bin/ld: BFD version 2.20.51.0.2-5.44.el6 20100205 internal error, line 443 in bfd_get_reloc_size /usr/bin/ld: Please report this bug.

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As correctly pointed out by Ralf, the messages above clearly say that you get an internal error in '/usr/bin/ld' and that you should report it to ld maintainers (or possibly maintainers of your distribution) together with information about the reported location in the C source of ld.

It's possible that this error is triggered by some incompatibility in FPC code, but eve if this is really the case (this may not be determined from the available information), we can't do much about it because ld fails miserably instead of providing any clue about what might possible be wrong in the file being processed by ld.

Tomas

It might be worth to try first with newer binutils, 2.20 is almost 10 years old. Or try with the fpc which comes with the used CentOS. IIRC CentOS 6 is using some ancient kernel 2.6.xx even?

Thank you all. I did try yum update binutils, no luck. So I tried yum update, let it update 136 packets, no luck.

So, I will try you idea of dropping back to (I think 2.6.4) FPC that is prepacked for CentOS 6.8.

Forced an FTP download of 2.6.4 bin & src, and viola: # fpc test
Free Pascal Compiler version 2.6.4 [2014/03/07] for x86_64 Copyright (c) 1993-2014 by Florian Klaempfl and others Target OS: Linux for x86-64
Compiling test.pp
Linking test
/usr/bin/ld: warning: link.res contains output sections; did you forget -T? 9 lines compiled, 0.1 sec

Just had to code around:
pascal.inc(1251,35) Error: Identifier not found "GetCPUCount"
pascal.inc(1256,37) Error: Identifier not found "AVXSupport"
pascal.inc(1260,38) Error: Identifier not found "AVX2Support"
pascal.inc(1264,37) Error: Identifier not found "FMASupport"

;-)
THANKS!

PS. Sorry Ralf, I did not realize you were saying "it's an LD issue" ;-)