[fpc-pascal] Compiling FPC for SPARC

[Peter Vreman]

At 17:06 31-7-2006, you wrote:
>First, is this the best list to discuss this?
>
>I've got rather agressive filtering in my mailing list gateway. If 
>anybody tries
>to send any attachments etc. to me please use markMLl.fpc2 .AT. 
>telemetry .DOT.
>co .DOT. uk.
>
>
>I admit readily to being a beginner as far as FPC is concerned, and
>inexperienced at Open Source development (SVN etc.) in general- SVN etc.
>
>On an i386-linux system I've installed the FPC binaries in
>/usr/local/fpc-2.0.2.i386 and the sources off ~/pascal/src (hence
>~/pascal/src/fpc/compiler etc.) and can compile using "make cycle" 
>to the point
>where I can run the new fpc against hello.pp and get something that runs.
>Questions at this stage:
>
>*  Are there further validation tests available?

There is a testsuite available in SVN (or fpc.zip) under fpc/trunk/tests

>*  How can I build an installation bundle to move to a virgin machine?

in the toplevel fpc/ type 'make zipinstall'

>*  What's the approved directory structure for an FPC binary+source tree
>    for further work on e.g. Lazarus?



>Moving to a SPARC (v8, 32-bit) system I installed the binaries in
>/usr/local/fpc-2.0.0.sparc and the 2.0.2 sources similarly off ~/pascal/src.
>Similarly running "make cycle" brought up a fairly obvious typo hence
>
>0 2>markMLl at pye-dev-04:~/pascal/src/fpc/compiler/sparc$ diff -u cpupara.pas~
>cpupara.pas
>--- cpupara.pas~        2005-12-04 21:24:03.000000000 +0000
>+++ cpupara.pas 2006-07-31 13:37:20.000000000 +0000
>@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@
>               begin
>                 p.funcretloc[side].loc:=LOC_REGISTER;
>                 { high }
>-               if (side=callerside) (po_inline in p.procoptions) then
>+               if (side=callerside) or (po_inline in p.procoptions) then

This already fixed in current SVN.




>Fixing the above and starting over, make runs up to
>
>make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/markMLl/pascal/src/fpc/rtl/linux'
>make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/markMLl/pascal/src/fpc/rtl'
>make -C ../rtl 'OPT=' all
>make[4]: Entering directory `/home/markMLl/pascal/src/fpc/rtl'
>make -C linux all
>make[5]: Entering directory `/home/markMLl/pascal/src/fpc/rtl/linux'
>as -o ../../rtl/units/sparc-linux/prt0.o sparc/prt0.as
>as -o ../../rtl/units/sparc-linux/dllprt0.o sparc/dllprt0.as
>as -o ../../rtl/units/sparc-linux/cprt0.o sparc/cprt0.as
>as -o ../../rtl/units/sparc-linux/gprt0.o sparc/gprt0.as
>/home/markMLl/pascal/src/fpc/compiler/ppc2 -Fi../inc -Fi../sparc -Fi../unix
>-Fisparc -FE. -FU../../rtl/units
>/sparc-linux -dsparc -Us -Sg system.pp
>Free Pascal Compiler version 2.0.2 [2006/07/31] for sparc
>Copyright (c) 1993-2005 by Florian Klaempfl
>Target OS: Linux for SPARC
>Compiling system.pp
>sparc.inc(60,3)  msg nr 1018
>An unhandled exception occurred at $0002EB9C :
>EInvalidPointer : Invalid pointer operation
>   $0002EB9C
>   $0002C84C
>   $0007217C
>   $0004A4C0
>   $000407DC
>   $000103B0
>An unhandled exception occurred at $00000030 :
>An unhandled exception occurred at $000FF00B :
>An unhandled exception occurred at $000FF003 :
>..
>An unhandled exception occurred at $000FF003 :
>An unhandled exception occurred at $000FF003 :
>An unhandled exception occurred at $000FF003 :
>make[5]: *** [system.ppu] Illegal instruction
>make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/markMLl/pascal/src/fpc/rtl/linux'
>make[4]: *** [linux_all] Error 2

Can't verify this atm. my sparc linux is not connected anymore.


>I propose to hold off any more tinkering for a few hours pending any 
>light that
>anybody can throw on this, or suggested ways forwards.
>
>Is there an archive of the 2.0.0 sources somewhere that I can run the 2.0.0
>SPARC compiler against as a check?

See the testsuite. You can even run it remotely through ssh/rsh from 
another platform with a cross compiler installed.


Peter