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

[Tomas Hajny]

On Tue, November 15, 2011 21:13, Florian Klämpfl wrote:
> Am 15.11.2011 21:12, schrieb Jonas Maebe:
>> On 15 Nov 2011, at 21:06, Florian Klämpfl wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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 gcc considers it as arm-linux-eabi as well, no?

Would anyone possibly consider creating releases for Android in the future
(even if just for cross-compilation purposes)? If this is the case, I'd
say that having a distinct target might make sense...

Tomas