[fpc-devel] Building 2.7.1 on current Raspbian fails

[Thaddy de Koning]

That may be true, but takes tricks. The compiler from me WILL build 
trunk, because it is a trunk. I do not have much time but as I stated 
before i WILL update it. It just takes a bit longer. Also, I won't do a 
full .deb for it, unless some helps with that. I wasn't able to do that 
yet and do not have experience with package building for Debian..
My starting compiler still will compile trunk with 
OVERRIDEVERSIONCHECK=1. This is a temporary solution until 2.8 is 
released and the debian guys will accept the latest stable 2.8 (which is 
a long way off, I understand): debian won't accept 2.71, because it is 
experimental. Raspbian follows Debeian. Debian is rightfully slow in 
accepting anything but the most stable and release versions. Debian will 
almost never accept anything else.

Point is: to obtain best results on the Raspberry Pi, you WILL need the 
latest FPC. It is really a great compiler for the platform.

The instructions I wrote still work as of 28898 (todays checkout)


Thaddy


On 10/23/2014 2:11 AM, peter green wrote:
> 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.
>
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