[fpc-pascal] Compiling FPC for SPARC

[Tomas Hajny]

Peter Vreman wrote:
>>
>>>on't bother with Solaris in 2.0.x, it won't work at all. None of
>>>the Solaris fixes from 2.1.1 have been merged
>>
>>On a positive note, Sparc/Solaris works fine in 2.1.1
>
> I tried to merge it in the past but aborted it. The Solaris RTL
> changes had a too much conflicts to qualify for a merge to 2.0.x. The
> sparc compiler codegenerator in 2.0.x and 2.1.1 are almost identical
> so there is not much of a difference between 2.0.x and 2.1.1 for the
> sparc. And therefor it is recommended to use 2.1.1.

Right. On the other hand, the start would be probably easier if there's at
least 2.0.4 sparc-linux available as starting compiler for further working
with 2.1.1 (considering the fact that the existing 2.0.0 binary apparently
fails with IE when building the current sources).

Tomas