[fpc-devel] Error compiling trunk on FreeBSD

[Leonardo M. Ramé]

> From: Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl>
> > > Binutils 2.15 is the lastest binutils under
> GPLv2.
> > 
> > Binutils 2.17 was the last GPLv2 version of binutils,
> and it supports  
> > cmpxchg16b.
> 
> Ok. Then I don't know why they are stuck at 2.15, I got
> that answer then (at
> the Fosdem LLVM talk), but didn't check it further. 
> I'll ask around.
> 
> But anyway, 8.2 is days old, so migrating to 2.17 is for
> now not an option,
> and the "db" solution will have to be implemented anyway.

I upgraded to the latest binutils from /usr/ports/devel/binutils (it's ver 2.21), then compiled FPC 2.5.1, but I got the same error.

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