[Lazarus] old problem on FreeBSD: ld cannot find -lc_r

[Marc Santhoff]

Am Mittwoch, den 24.07.2013, 12:18 +0200 schrieb Marco van de Voort:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 04:34:34AM +0200, Marc Santhoff wrote:
> > after unpacking the brand new lazarus 1.0.10 and compiling it anything
> > works fine. The next step was to install the lazreport package into the
> > IDE. Compilation worked up to the linking process:
> > 
> >   /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc_r
> >   lazarus.pp(135) Error: Error while linking
> >   lazarus.pp(135) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping
> 
> 
> Sounds like a -Xf parameter problem. Without this parameter, pthread is
> chosen, with libpthread.
> 
> So probably you have some stale -Xf in the project, probably in a *really*
> old project.
> 
> Really old versions worked the other way around (c_r default, + -Xf ->
> libpthread)
> 
> > This is pretty old and I had this once while FreeBSD was swapping one
> > threading library for another. Nowadays "-lc_r" is unsupported AFAIK and
> > one should use "-lpthread" instead.
> 
> A year ago, there were still people with 4.x servers. But the rarety is why
> the default was changed. Just kill all -Xf parameters.

I'm very close to absolutely sure that one of the components I kicked
out of the IDE has a dependency to very old stuff. There was no [time|
need] to fix it yet, but that will be easy (I hope;). Plan is to clean
up old sources for not beeing thrown into problems again ...

Thanks for explaning the swapping trick using -Xf.

Regards,
Marc 

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Marc Santhoff <M.Santhoff at web.de>