[fpc-devel] Building 2.7.1 on current Raspbian fails

[peter green]

Pierre Free Pascal wrote:
>> https://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/f/fpc/
>>     
>
>   The 2.6.4 release is able to successfully compile
> a 2.7.1 trunk compiler.
>   
:) Thanks for confirming.

>Several files are missing in this source release:

The source package which is made up of  fpc_2.6.4+dfsg-4+rpi1.dsc , 
fpc_2.6.4+dfsg-4+rpi1.debian.tar.xz and fpc_2.6.4+dfsg.orig.tar.gz does 
contain the files you mention. To extract it you use dpkg-source -x on 
the dsc file. This is the source used to build the deb files.

The "binary" package fpc-source exists primerally for the benefit of 
lazarus users, it appears to contain more than is needed for lazarus use 
but not enough to actually build the compiler which does seem a bit 
strange. This is not raspbian specific, the packages in debian are the 
same way.