[SOLVED] getting the brand new 1.6 to finish building

[userx-bw]

I got it! finally Lazarus 1.6
Now I am sitting here waiting for it to finish linking. it has been sitting here stuck on this part for close to 15 minutes now.

yes! I have to install via source code due to my Distro limitations of not having it in their repos.

it is stuck in this stage

/home/userx/Downloads/lazarus-install/lazarus/ide/lazarus.pp(71,5) Hint: (5023) Unit "FPCUnitTestRunner" not used in Lazarus
(9022) Compiling resource ../units/x86_64-linux/gtk2/lazarus.or
(9015) Linking ../lazarus
/usr/bin/ld: warning: ../link.res contains output sections; did you forget -T?


using make clean bigide

I have no idea how to get it past that and finished.

anyone?

[Thaddy]

your linker is out-of-date. Upgrade your binutils, more specific the ld linker to something more recent  than V7.25.

That warning about -T is harmless by the way.
Also, try to scroll down in your terminal. The older linker has errors that emit at lot of empty lines. That is not a bug in fpc but in the gnu linker that is fixed in later versions of the gnu linker.


Also note 15 minutes is nothing. Try building GNU C++, that takes days.
A normal build on a slow laptop thingy or RPi should be about 15- 45 minutes

[userx-bw]

yes I know about (all of ) the warnings t warning about -T
I've always seen them...
I've just never had it take so long before to go through this proccess on this laptop. core 2 ~ 2.66GzH.

as a matter of fact I went out to kill some more time then when I came back it was actaully completed. though I will look into my version of binutils  though.

thanks for your responce. conder this matter closed.
wait let me try running it first before I complete this post.

yep fired up just fine

thanks again!