Hi Peter, Sorry about this, but I'm currently very busy and could not have the time to check this and fix it. I'll try to find a moment in the coming 2 weeks to apply your patch and upload it.
Cheers, On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 23:06 +0100, peter green wrote: > Over a month ago I posted a patch to add the new (multiarch) directory > containing crti.o to the default fpc.cfg. Without this patch (or an > equivilent manual config edit or manual command line parameter) > freepascal will (silently) fail to include include crti.o in the linker > script and this causes link failures of pascal programs that use c > libraries on armel and probablly powerpc and sparc as well*. I do not > know why it succeeds without it on i386 and amd64. > > Note1: this does not make the fpc package itself multiarch. > > Note2: the failures to build lazarus are currently blocking fpc from > migrating to testing so there is no point holding the patch for this > issue up in the hope of fpc migrating to testing first. > > If there is anything you do not like about this patch please tell me and > I will adjust it. Otherwise please upload it. > > * I have not personally tested on powerpc and sparc because I do not > have access to them but it seems more than likely that the lazarus build > failures on those architectures are manifestations of the same issue. > > >
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