On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 18:23 +0100, peter green wrote: > Guillem Jover wrote: > > Package: fp-compiler-2.6.2 > > Version: 2.6.2-2 > > Severity: serious > > > > Hi! > > > > This package is no longer installable with the recent binutils upload > > which has started providing binutils-gold, with fp-compiler-2.6.2 both > > Depending on binutils and Conflicting on binutils-gold. > > > > Here's the relevant binutils changelog entry: > > > > ,--- > > binutils (2.23.52.20130722-1) unstable; urgency=low > > > > […] > > * Stop building the binutils-gold package, let binutils provide > > binutils-gold. Packages requiring gold should explicity pass > > -fuse-ld=gold to the compiler, packages requiring the bfd linker > > should pass -fuse-ld=bfd to the compiler. > > […] > > > > -- Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jul 2013 21:13:32 +0200 > > `--- > > > Assuming that fpc is still broken with gold I suspect that the best way > to deal with this is to patch fpc so it calls ld.bfd explicitly and then > remove the conflicts as suggested in bug 624525.
I think this is the way to do it. I've already discussed with upstream and they don't plan to support gold. Cheers,
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