[fpc-pascal] Compiling FPC for SPARC

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Peter Vreman wrote:

> 2.0.4 (and also the current 2.1.1) can still be build by 2.0.0.

Sure- on an Intel platform.

Running on i386- I've just had another session and can confirm that 2.0.2 can
build both its own sources and those of 2.0.4, so my earlier problem was
definitely something to do with the User Mode Linux kernel. I'll investigate
that at some indeterminate point in the future if I have to (UML is useful once
you're used to having it).

On SPARC- specifically, a 32-bit SPARCstation- trying to compile 2.0.2 using
2.0.0 results in an exception. I've just checked that again and can confirm
that. However it occurs to me that it could possibly be the same problem as in
the 2.0.4 source but for some reason the error handling is bombing.

Whatever, I'll move onto the 2.0.4 source as suggested and see if I can do
anything useful there. I'll also investigate building a cross-compiler.

I'm hoping to have a couple of newer machines in a few days courtesy of a
certain hardware manufacturer who is interested in keeping open source projects
going.

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

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