[Lazarus] Error when rebuilding the IDE in Lazarus 1.6.4, AMD64

[brian]

On 03/05/2017 10:35 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus wrote:
> On 05/03/17 15:00, brian via Lazarus wrote:
>> On 03/05/2017 09:15 AM, brian666--- via Lazarus wrote:> Hi all,> >
>> Just upgraded to the AMD 64 versions of FPC 3.02 and Lazarus 1.6.4
>> as> downloaded from SourceForge, I upgraded an instance of 1.6.2
>> (from the> same source) which was working just fine. I'm running
>> 64-bit Linux> Mint 'Betsy', i.e. the Debian-based version of Mint,
>> on a AMD Phenom> x2. The problem is that rebuilding the IDE doesn't
>> seem to work.> > The error is shown as 'Generic error while
>> linking'. I don't think the> source line is relevant, as it tags the
>> 'end.' in lazarus.pp. The exit> code returned is 512.> > Any ideas,
>> please?>
>> P.S. Same error when trying to build a 'Hello, World' simple program.
> 
> I built on amd64 using pukka Debian a couple of days ago with no
> problems.  GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.25
> 

The version of binutils in the LMDE repositories is 2.25-5. I did do
an apt-get update, upgrade and -f install before posting. Everything
was up to date.

Brian.