[fpc-pascal] Building FPC with gdb support for SPARC

[Florian Klaempfl]

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> The build worked and I appear to have an intact fpc and fp. However fp's
> disassembly window is very fragile- SEGV at the drop of a hat.
> 
> I find I can't transfer the compiled bundle to another machine- I get "fp:
> /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by fp)" which I presume
> is telling me that it can't find the library version it was built against. 

Usual unix library mess. Transfering binaries from one machine to another is 
often a problem.

> I'm
> going to drop that as an experiment since that machine is too ponderous to build
> the compiler in less than a day, and upgrading anything on it isn't feasible.
> 
> Going back to the SEGV problem, is there any way that somebody with my minimal
> experience can tackle this?
> 

Compile the IDE with GDB support (make clean all OPT=-g) run it inside GDB and 
post the stack trace:

gdb ./fp
r
where