[Lazarus] Can some fix this "make" issue? Pi related.

[Sven Barth]

Am 01.04.2016 11:20 schrieb "Henry Vermaak" <henry.vermaak at gmail.com>:
>
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 09:12:10AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> > Henry Vermaak wrote:
> > >On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 12:39:15AM -0400, Anthony Walter wrote:
> > >>My question is can someone look into this issue so that building
Lazarus in
> > >>environments where free memory is than 700MB does not result in
Lazarus
> > >>build failures?
> > >
> > >I've come across ld running out of memory when linking the lazarus
> > >executable on my (very) old ARM laptop.  You can try to pass
> > >--no-keep-memory and --reduce-memory-overheads to ld, at the cost of
> > >performance.  I can't see how the build system has anything to do with
> > >it.
> >
> > It's always worked fine for me on things like NSLU-2 provided that the
> > overall memory (i.e. RAM + swap) is at least 512Mb. It will be
unfortunate
> > if recent builds of FPC and/or Lazarus have pushed this requirement
upwards,
> > but so far I've not seen any problems on a Raspberry Pi (both 1 and 2)
> > running Raspbian or Debian.
>
> Yes, I remember that the slug needed swap.  Swap is painfully slow,
> though, so I'd recommend reducing ld's memory usage instead.  I wonder
> if anyone has tried the gold linker.  It was supposed to be faster, I
> don't know about memory usage.

FPC does not support the gold linker (though I don't remember right now
what the problems were).

Regards,
Sven
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