[fpc-devel] rev 19036 breaks the Android cross-compiler

[Sven Barth]

On 15.11.2011 21:12, Jonas Maebe wrote:
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> On 15 Nov 2011, at 21:06, Florian Klämpfl wrote:
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>> I dn't know if this is a good long term solution: I fear too much
>> duplication with having a seperate android target. I'd prefer an
>> FPC_ANDROID define, I don't think that it will pollute the rtl and
>> considering that there are a lot of arm "sub architectures" out there
>> having an own target for each of them isn't a good idea either. Maybe we
>> can even introduce some SUBARCH in the long term into our build system.
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> Android isn't a different architecture (if you consider native applications), but a different OS. It uses a Linux kernel (although even that one is heavily patched, afaik), and user land is obviously quite different (including the C library and the dynamic linker).

But FPC also supports different C libraries (at least glibc and uclibc). 
And they may have drastic differences, too, they simply didn't occur yet 
as not that many people are testing/using the uclibc support. So what 
would speak against adding another one and using (and if necessary 
adjusting) the libc variation of the RTL (if it's indeed not a good idea 
to use direct syscalls)?

Regards,
Sven