[Pkg-pascal-devel] Workaround for "/usr/bin/ld: warning: link.res contains output sections; did you forget -T?"

[Paul Gevers]

Hi Alexander,


On 14-08-17 12:39, Alexander F Rødseth wrote:
> As I gather, binutils updatream does not view this is a problem,
> neither does fpc upstream, but it's mildly annoying for especially new
> users of fpc.

Did you try to have this fixed? Could you share communications about it?
Maybe (very maybe) we can fix this in binutils in Debian if the solution
is clean enough.

> I created a utility that binary patches /usr/bin/ld to get rid of this
> warning, here: https://github.com/xyproto/ldfpcfix
>
> You may or may not want to use it in connection with packaging fpc,
> but at least a workaround is available.

Thanks for letting us know. However, this solution is too ugly for
packaging.

Paul

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