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

[Peter Vreman]

>> I'm still working on other things but that leaves me wondering whether
>> there's
>> scope for the main part of fp and the gdb interface to attempt to use
>> incompatible library versions at runtime. On the machine (Debian
>> "Sarge") I'm
>> using for the build /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.2.so, on the older
>> machine
>> (Debian "Woody") /lib64/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.2.5.so.
>>
>
> If you leave out the debugger interface, libc is left out which isn't
> required
> then. Transfering binaries between linuxes using different libc is always
> random
> if it works or not.

libc is backwards compatible only. That means you can build something with
libc-2.2.5 and it will run also on libc-2.3.2. So a fp with debugger build
on Woody will also run on Sarge, Etch and Sid.