[Pkg-pascal-devel] Lintian errors and warnings on FPC

[Abou Al Montacir]

Hi David,

On Wed, 2022-01-26 at 10:48 +1100, David Bannon wrote:
> A special case is where the binary is only statically linked because its a
> small, single function thing that does not need to be linked externally. There
> are a handful of such binaries in FPC. In their case, they need the src
> patched to add eg {$linklib c}, that forces an otherwise unnecessary link to
> the C libs and therefore dynamic linking, then just add the -Cg -k-pie -k-znow
> 
> Or, somewhat messier, I found you can explicitly name the loader on the linker
> line
> 
> fpc -Cg -k-pie -k-znow -k"--dynamic-linker /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2"
> test.pas
Thank you for this explanation.
I'm not fan of forcing linking with libc. This is against the FPC ideal of
producing pure pascal code.
I don't know if forcing the dynamic linker is a good way to go. I'll check
upstream (and probably the web saerch engines first).
-- 
Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir

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