[fpc-devel] Building 2.7.1 on current Raspbian fails

[Paul Breneman]

On 10/23/2014 08:41 AM, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
> On 10/23/2014 11:49 AM, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>> On 23/10/14 11:28, Thaddy de Koning wrote:
>>>
>>>> The starting compiler is any official FPC 2.6.4 compiler that can be
>>>> downloaded from our website. With any of those compilers, you can build
>>>> both cross and native trunk compiler for any of the targets supported
>>>> only by trunk. That's how all targets are bootstrapped.
>>>>
>>> Not for ARMV6 EABIHF
>>
>> That's why I said you have to cross-compile. E.g.:
>> * download FPC 2.6.4 of Linux/i386
>
> And for those who are wondering why Jonas is making such a big point out
> of this: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=26930 (Just a bug report
> from today)
>
> We get this kind of bugs, questions and comments all the time. All from
> people who try to build trunk-with-trunk, while they do not know what
> they are doing.
>
> That must stop. So, please, please, *never* say you can/have to build
> fpc-trunk with fpc-trunk. (Unless it's the same revision)
>
> Joost.


This thread has been *very* educational so thanks to all who 
participated.  I've spent a bit of time during the past 7 years trying 
to figure out how to simplify things by avoiding cross-compiling.

I'll start another thread about this but I think there is a way to 
simplify cross-compiling.  Levinux is a small Qemu download for x86 PC 
(Windows, OS X, Linux) that provides a small Linux VM.  I'd like to see 
something similar but with Debian and all the files and tools needed to 
cross-compile FPC.

Please hold your comments until there is a new thread (feel free to 
start that).  Thanks!

http://mikelev.in/ux/
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