I have been asked to advice on a problem occurring when installing FPC/Lazarus on a Raspberry Pi device using a script I have published on-line. The script retrieves all sources via svn and also sets up the development environment using apt-get.
It also downloads the seed fpc compiler ver 3.0.0 to use during the process.

The user shows a part of the screen output when the failure happens during make bigide inside the source dir:

(9009) Assembling main

/home/pi/dev/lazarus/1.6/ide/lazarus.pp(71,5) Hint: (5023) Unit
“FPCUnitTestRunner” not used in Lazarus

(9009) Assembling lazarus

/home/pi/dev/lazarus/1.6/ide/lazarus.pp(150,42) Error: (9008) Can’t
call the assembler, error -1 switching to external assembling
/home/pi/dev/lazarus/1.6/ide/lazarus.pp(150,42) Fatal: (10026) There
were 2 errors compiling module, stopping

Fatal: (1018) Compilation aborted
Makefile:4004: receptet för målet ”lazarus” misslyckades

Since this has worked for many users now I am wondering what could be the cause?

One observation I did is that the messages include Swedish in the output, so clearly this box is localized to Sweden, which I have never tested.
Could such a localization affect some aspect of the installation from sources?

Easy way to check:
Launch the script using a different locale. E. G. : LANG=C ; whatever.sh
If successful it is a matter of localization.
If it fails, a matter of environment, such as missing binutils, or something of this kind.

Giuliano

Inviato da iPhone

This error "Can't call the assembler..." is because of insufficient memory with the RPi. Just add 1GB of swap and it will work.

Patrick

Patrick Chevalley wrote

This error "Can't call the assembler..." is because of insufficient memory with the RPi. Just add 1GB of swap and it will work.

Thanks, I had forgotten about this altogether.
On my recent boxes (RPi3 units) this seems to have worked with the default 100 MB swap....

I have suggested the user to up swap to 100 MB while he builds the IDE.