FPCUPdeluxe hangs on `fpmake`

[TRon]

I should clarify a few things:

Thank you. I just made a (wrong) assumption based on the naming scheme you used (which is very un-linuxy and more windowsy  )

I am actually using Pop!_OS 22.04, and not, strictly speaking, Ubuntu.

That should not (have to) matter. I did not hear you mention running something esoteric.

It is still strange though. If it would really be a (generic) problem then I assume more people would have had complained about the issue (so there might be something off)

Thank you for mentioning that strace "killed" your GUI, I was not sure if it could be of help. Unfortunately that is all the approaches I can think of atm unless compiling with debug info (-glh) would be able to shed a light.

To be able to determine it is not related to FPCUpDeluxe (which I think it isn't) the only way to make sure is compile manually from source (as intended) but that does require more of your time to get yourself more acquainted with the build-system (see also wiki, but I personally think the instructions there are rather confusing and at times even contradictory for someone new).

[yay]

An early suggestion that's stuck in my brain had something to do with limiting the number of cores upon which FPC compiled as part of some known issue. Is there a way to test that theory with fpcud?

[TRon]

An early suggestion that's stuck in my brain had something to do with limiting the number of cores upon which FPC compiled as part of some known issue. Is there a way to test that theory with fpcud?

afaik, setup+ then uncheck use jobs for gnu make /then/ press the install button

[yay]

afaik, setup+ then uncheck use jobs for gnu make /then/ press the install button

That did it. Hooray! Now that we know the specific nature of the error, perhaps we can figure out how to rectify it and take advantage of all those juicy modern cores on my juicy modern processor.

Also worth noting for future people: Lazarus appears to be incompatible with installs of FPC from the .deb, as attempting to rebuild the Lazarus as resulted from the recent successful fpcud install with "Normal IDE" profile results in the error `cannot find clocale used by lazarus`. Temporarily renaming `/usr/lib/fpc` seems to indicate that this is, indeed, the root of the issue. So now we have one more thing to investigate.

[TRon]

That did it. Hooray!

Thank you for the feedback.

I haven't seen this particular issue being reported for quite some time now so more or less assumed it was fixed...

[DonAlfredo]

Good find !
FYI.
The use of jobs is, by default, disabled on Win64, due to errors that were reported in the past.
This might also de done for (linux) arm and aarch64, to prevent the current issue. However, I have not encountered this problem myself (RPi2-5) yet.