[fpc-devel] Re: fpc build problems on some debian armel buildds

[peter green]

Jonas Maebe wrote:
> On 30 Jun 2011, at 19:04, peter green wrote:
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>> Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
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>>> Riku Voipio wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 03:33:36PM +0100, peter green wrote:
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>>>>> The current FPC package builds fine in qemu for me. I will attempt to  try on some real hardware too when I get a chance.
>>>>>           
>>>> Qemu allows unaligned memory accesses, which do not always work on real
>>>> hardware, especially on armv5 and other older arms.
>>>>
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>>>>> Is there a list anywhere of what hardware the buildds run on and/or any  other interesting information about their setups so I can try to figure  out what if anything the failing buildds have in common. Has anything  changed in ancina's configuration recently?
>>>>>           
>>>> All currently running armel buildd's are identical marvell mv78x00 boards. Updates on ancina are the regular "apt-get upgrades" to get latest toolchain
>>>> etc in sid.
>>>>         
>>> There were issues with some versions of FPC, related to more than a certain number of parameters (four?) being passed. Jonas wrote the following on the 5th October last year:
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>> Do you know if that fix has made it into any stable releases and if so which ones?
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> It hasn't. It's only available in svn trunk (r16073)
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Is it reasonablly backportable?
Are there any plans for a new stable release any time soon either based 
on the current stable release branch or freshly branched from trunk?
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