[fpc-devel] Building cross-compilers

Jonas Maebe jonas at freepascal.org
Sat Aug 18 13:10:10 CEST 2018


On 18/08/18 12:10, Alfred wrote:
> My question: am I correct in assuming that a cross-compiler should 
> always be build with the compiler from the source itself ?

It is best, yes. Although this does not happen very often any more, 
sometimes ppc1 (which is used to build the cross-compiler) does not 
contain all fixes/features in case the last stable release had a bug 
that gets triggered by the compiler/rtl code from trunk.


Jonas



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