Error: Unknown command-line parameter : -a
lazarus / 1-Linux

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thierrybo · 2010-01-17 10:37

Hi,

since I installed fpc 2.4.0 in my home directory to compile lazarus
svn, it fails on this error "Error: Unknown command-line parameter :
-a", either with make or from Lazarus build menu:

Quotemake clean all
FPC=/home/thierrybo/Sys/local/opt/fpc/2.4.0/bin/fpc
...
Compiling resource ../units/x86_64-linux/lazarus.or
Error: Unknown command-line parameter : -a
fpcres - Free Pascal Resource to ELF object compiler
...
I did  not found many online ressources on this. I did not build fpc
2.4 from sources but installed the binaries from
http://www.freepascal.org/down/x86_64/linux-ftp.freepascal.org.var
Quote(Download in 1 big file:

    * fpc-2.4.0.x86_64-linux.tar (36 MB) contains a standard tar
archive, with an install script
      After untarring the archive into a temporary location, you can
run the install script by issuing the command "sh install.sh". )

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Wadlax · 2010-01-23 12:05

I have also encountered such problem.

Try to search your /usr dir for "fpcres".
I have found 2 of them.
/usr/local/bin/fpcres (2007.05.05)
/usr/bin/fpcres (2010.01.22)

If you call NEW fpcres - you will see, that it supports -a flag.

So i just decided to "rm /usr/local/bin/fpc*"

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thierrybo · 2010-01-23 14:32

thanks,

I have only one in /usr/bin/fpcres (2009.06.03 634,4k)

This one comes from fp-utils 2.2.4-3 package from
www.hu.freepascal.org debian/ubuntu repository.

However there is a new one in ~/Sys/local/opt/fpc/2.4.0/bin/fpcres
that supports -a option. If I replace /usr/bin/fpcres with
~/Sys/local/opt/fpc/2.4.0/bin/fpcres as you did, is this safe for the
"regular" Lazarus operations?