[fpc-devel] Error compiling trunk on FreeBSD

[Florian Klaempfl]

Am 02.03.2011 14:01, schrieb Marco van de Voort:
> In our previous episode, Tomas Hajny said:
>>> 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.
>>
>> FWIW, I had to do something similar in i386/mmx.pp (femms instruction) in
>> the past due to AS version available for OS/2 at that time.
> 
> Yes. But that is about way older binutils. OpenBSD had some too before 3.4
> (when they were a.out)
> 
> I asked around, and FreeBSD 9 will migrate to 2.17.50 (+patches). But they
> usually don't change toolchains much within stable versions, and FreeBSD7 is
> supported till 2013, so FreeBSD8 even longer probably, so we will have to
> live with it. Luckily it is a freakish instruction with only one
> occurance. x86_64 is FreebSD8 plus (I have no idea how it fares on -7, it
> might be that it just works and that the porter did it)

Good reason to fix the elf64 writer for FreeBSD :)?