Jonas, It does indeed ship with 2.19.1. I've had this same problem in the past, and have had to stick with ubuntu 8.04 for my development box due to this problem.
Prince - if you execute fpc with the verbose option (-va), it actually displays the search for a linker to use, which in my instance is found in /usr/bin/ld and listed as "found". Alan On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be>wrote: > > On 24 Apr 2009, at 23:28, Prince Riley wrote: > > Sorry to but in, but I read this post and followed the link to the >> binutils >> problem you mentioned in your reply. >> Is it possible the error message, "Can't call the linker,..." is the >> result >> of a bad/missing symlink and not the problem in binutils? >> > > It's indeed a generic error message. To see what really happens, you have > to compile with the "-Cn" command line parameter and then execute the > generated ./ppas.sh script. > > The problem is most likely the fact that ld crashes though, as I'm pretty > sure that Ubuntu 9.04 ships with binutils 2.19.x
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