[fpc-devel] Building 2.7.1 on current Raspbian fails

[John Lee]

ok, but can we now please return this thread to the original subject re
2.7.1 (and 2.6.4) for rpi. TIA John

On 23 October 2014 13:41, Joost van der Sluis <joost at cnoc.nl> wrote:

> On 10/23/2014 11:49 AM, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>
>> On 23/10/14 11:28, Thaddy de Koning wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>  The starting compiler is any official FPC 2.6.4 compiler that can be
>>>> downloaded from our website. With any of those compilers, you can build
>>>> both cross and native trunk compiler for any of the targets supported
>>>> only by trunk. That's how all targets are bootstrapped.
>>>>
>>>>  Not for ARMV6 EABIHF
>>>
>>
>> That's why I said you have to cross-compile. E.g.:
>> * download FPC 2.6.4 of Linux/i386
>>
>
> And for those who are wondering why Jonas is making such a big point out
> of this: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=26930 (Just a bug report
> from today)
>
> We get this kind of bugs, questions and comments all the time. All from
> people who try to build trunk-with-trunk, while they do not know what they
> are doing.
>
> That must stop. So, please, please, *never* say you can/have to build
> fpc-trunk with fpc-trunk. (Unless it's the same revision)
>
> Joost.
>
>
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