[fpc-pascal] Compiling for SPARC

[Jonas Maebe]

On 8 aug 2006, at 18:52, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:

>> I can't reproduce this with either cross compiling from ppc to sparc
>> with 2.0.4, or with natively compiling under solaris/sparc with
>> 2.1.1. Can you compile your compiler with debug info (add OPT="-O- -
>> g" to your make command) and attach with gdb to see what the compiler
>> is doing?
>
> I might need a hand with that- it's a level of hackery that I've  
> not previously
> attempted.

Given the info below, it's not needed.

> However what I'm currently looking at is that make output gets as  
> far as telling
> me that ppcsparc is processing gtkglarea.pp and announcing that ar  
> is creating
> ../libpgtkglarea.a. Using top and ps faux I can see that ppcsparc  
> is sitting
> there forking sh which execs ar, ar and sh terminate (result  
> unknown) and a new
> copy of sh is forked... it's been doing that for a couple of hours.  
> Looking
> where the action is I can see that libgtkglarea.a is 8 bytes long  
> and a couple
> of hours old, there's a gtkglarea.sl directory containing a number  
> of .o files
> all of which again appear to be a couple of hours old.

Very strange. smartlinking can be slow sometimes, but gtkglarea only  
results in 12 object files... Can you capture some command lines of  
ar commands that are executed?


Jonas