[fpc-devel] Packaging

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Marco van de Voort wrote:

> > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Daniel Herzog wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > In order to get fpc into portage, the gentoo packaging system
> > > it would be necessary to make available a bootstrap tar ball (640 KB)
> > > with the ppc386 binary and a default fpc.cfg file.
> > 
> > 640 K ? Is that a joke ? The compiler sources alone are more than 2Mb ?
> 
> I think he means only the cmdline compiler. A fpc.cfg doesn't matter for
> bootstrap purposes. (and would be location dependant, and thus useless
> anyway)
> 
> This because the main src archive is not OS-ARCH specific.

Ah, this makes more sense...

Michael.