[fpc-pascal] Compiling FPC for SPARC

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Tomas Hajny wrote:

> I propose to check with the 2.0.4-rc2 sources. You can get these from
> ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/beta/2.0.4-rc2/source/,

That builds (make cycle) OK on/for linux-i386 using FPC 2.0.2, but on
linux-sparc using FPC 2.0.0 I get:

Target OS: Linux for SPARC
Compiling system.pp
..
rtti.inc(268,9) Warning: Comment level 2 found
ossysc.inc(192,14) Error: Identifier not found "syscall_nr_exit_group"
system.pp(271) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping
system.pp(271) Error: Compilation aborted
make[5]: *** [system.ppu] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory
`/home/markMLl/pascal/src/fpcbuild_2_0_4_rc2_exp/fpcsrc/rtl/linux'
make[4]: *** [linux_all] Error 2

I seem to have three choices:

i)   Find the file in the 2.0.2 sources that SPARC 2.0.0 couldn't compile, and
     see if there's some hack that will fix this.

ii)  Ditto for 2.0.4 sources (possibly easier since the compiler isn't bombing).

iii) Compile 2.0.2 on i386 to target SPARC, and see if that will compile the
     2.0.2 source.

My gut feeling is (iii), but any suggestions would be appreciated.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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