[fpc-pascal] Compiling for SPARC

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Jonas Maebe wrote:

> I'm not sure where exactly 119 fits in here, unless length(binstr)
> (full path to your copy of ar) around 120 chars or so.

0 1>markMLl at pye-dev-04:/fpcsrc$ which ar
/usr/bin/ar

About enough room for the path to ar, some options, and a couple of filenames.

> And it's clear that if not a single file name fits in this string,
> this is going to produce an endless loop of empty "ar" invocations
> (as you experienced)...

Yes, I thought it was going to end up something like that... :-/

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