[fpc-pascal] Building FPC on LFS system

[Geoffray Levasseur]

On Sunday 30 January 2011 14:49:29 Jonas Maebe wrote:
> On 30 Jan 2011, at 14:35, Geoffray Levasseur wrote:
> > I suppose I'll have to download a precompiled version for my system
> > (x86_64) but I want do do this in a clean way.
> 
> Assuming "LFS" in your mail meant "Linux From Scratch", you can a download
> bootstrap binary from
> ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/fpc/dist/2.4.0/bootstrap/ppcx64-x86_64-linux.bz2
> (it seems no bootstrap compiler for Linux/x86_64 was uploaded for 2.4.2,
> but the 2.4.0 binary can be used to bootstrap 2.4.2).
> 
Perfect this is exactly what I was looking for.

> > Another question: is there any usefull optimization flags (just like
> > CFLAGS)?
> 
> Not really. The default -O2 will be pretty much optimal. Only if you have
> an SSE3 capable cpu, you can add OPT="-Cfsse3" at the end of make command
> line. It won't make much of a difference though, as it only affects
> certain float to int conversions.
> 
OK right just basic things so... Mayby any 64 bits optimizations (I'm thinking 
about a -m64 equivalent to gcc)?
> 
> Jonas_______________________________________________
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Thanks
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