[fpc-pascal] fpc arm big endian help

[Terry Kemp]

Hi all

I'm working on some code for the NSLU2 'slug'.
How do I get ppcarm to compile in big endian mode?
I have done it once before but I've lost the magic wand somewhere.

Do I need to build from source as in a post I saw on devel list...
change system_arm_linux_info.endian to endian_big in /pp/compiler/systems/i_linux.pas
then run make clean CPU_TARGET=arm CROSSINSTALL=1
then make crossall CPU_TARGET=arm OS_TARGET=linux

heres one I prepared earlier...
$ file /opt/slugtest
/opt/slugtest: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, ARM, version 1 (ARM), for
GNU/Linux 2.0.0, statically linked, for GNU/Linux 2.0.0, stripped

so I know it worked before - but now...

$ ppcarm -XParm-linux- slugtest.pp
Free Pascal Compiler version 2.0.4 [2006/08/23] for arm
Copyright (c) 1993-2006 by Florian Klaempfl
Target OS: Linux for ARM
Compiling slugtest.pp
slugtest.pp(26,10) Note: Local variable "lK" is assigned but never used
slugtest.pp(10,6) Note: Local variable "lI" not used
Assembling slugtest
Linking slugtest
69 Lines compiled, 0.0 sec

$ file slugtest
slugtest: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (ARM), for GNU/Linux
2.0.0, statically linked, for GNU/Linux 2.0.0, stripped

$ ppcarm -XParmv5b-linux- slugtest.pp
Free Pascal Compiler version 2.0.4 [2006/08/23] for arm
Copyright (c) 1993-2006 by Florian Klaempfl
Target OS: Linux for ARM
Compiling slugtest.pp
slugtest.pp(26,10) Note: Local variable "lK" is assigned but never used
slugtest.pp(10,6) Note: Local variable "lI" not used
Assembling slugtest
Linking slugtest
/home/tkemp/bin/armv5b-linux-ld: /usr/local/lib/fpc/2.0.4/units/arm-linux/rtl/prt0.o: compiled for a little endian system and target is big endian
/home/tkemp/bin/armv5b-linux-ld: failed to merge target specific data of
file /usr/local/lib/fpc/2.0.4/units/arm-linux/rtl/prt0.o
/home/tkemp/bin/armv5b-linux-ld: /usr/local/lib/fpc/2.0.4/units/arm-linux/rtl/system.o: compiled for a little endian system and target is big endian
/home/tkemp/bin/armv5b-linux-ld: failed to merge target specific data of
file /usr/local/lib/fpc/2.0.4/units/arm-linux/rtl/system.o... ...

I'm cross compiling from x86_64 if that makes any difference...
fpc-2.0.4-2.fc5
Free Pascal Compiler version 2.0.4 [2006/09/20] for x86_64
Copyright (c) 1993-2006 by Florian Klaempfl

Thanks for any help

Terry