<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">Am 10.11.2017 18:59 schrieb "Marc Santhoff" <<a href="mailto:M.Santhoff@web.de">M.Santhoff@web.de</a>>:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="quoted-text">On Fr, 2017-11-10 at 18:22 +0100, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2017, Marc Santhoff wrote:<br>
><br>
> > What is that, is ppc used for bootstrapping the cross compiler<br>
> > regardless of any other fpc maybe installed?<br>
><br>
> Yes. First that ppc gets built with the "other FPC" installed. Or you can<br>
> specify a startup compiler explicitly with FPC= argument to the make. It<br>
> doesn't even need the rtl or anything, just the "ppcXXX" native compiler.<br>
><br>
> During the first round it builds this new native compiler + rtl which will<br>
> be used to bootstrap the actual crosscompiler then.<br>
<br>
</div>Ok. So I have a newer compiler for the base system built on the fly,<br>
nice.<br></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Not really, because only the compiler and RTL are rebuild for the native system when cross building FPC, all the packages are still missing. So you nevertheless need to do a complete build for your host life you had done for your cross compilation target. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards, </div><div dir="auto">Sven </div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></div></div></div></div>