[fpc-pascal] Compiling for SPARC

[Jonas Maebe]

On 9 aug 2006, at 23:39, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:

>
>> Thanks for this info, I had exactly the same problem when compiling
>> 2.0.4-rc3 for arm-linux. Solved now, by reducing the path-lenth.
>> Regards,
>
> Glad to be of some help. I'll continue working on this to see if I  
> can find out
> how long the leading path has to be before there are problems,

Internally, the compiler uses a shortstring (max 255) characters to  
build the "ar" command line. It currently passes three file names at  
a time to "ar", so the currently max is about 80 characters per dir 
+filename.

> I also want to
> try make -j 2 (etc.) to see if I can speed things up a bit since  
> the make
> process is painfully slow here.

It won't work, the makefiles are not written to support this.


Jonas