[fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 05:11:52PM +0200, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote:
> Err, sorry, there's a typo in the previous line I've sent. here's the
> correct one. Also, ASTARGET= override seems to work, so you don't need to
> patch the sources, you can fix it during build with options.
> 
> Like this:
> 
>  make all ASTARGET=-32 OPT="-ao-32 -Fo/usr/lib32 -Fl/usr/lib32"
> 
> This builds current 3.1.1 SVN with the preinstalled 3.0.2 package on the
> Debian SPARC64 box without patching anything.

Ok, that's a good start. Thank you!

> Now, if you want to patch the compiler for this, or simply wire
> additional options to the package supplied fpc.cfg with the right
> paths and options, that decision is not mine to make. I'm not the
> Linux maintainer, and even less of a SPARC maintainer. :)

I need to figure out where the package's own fpc.cfg resides. The
packaging is a bit confusing.

Adrian

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