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

[Tomas Hajny]

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Peter Vreman wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Thanks Peter, noted. However I'm trying to move to faster hardware, not
> slower/hotter/noisier :-)
>
> On the other hand, what you say implies that it might be possible to build
> the
> gdb interface libraries on a Woody system and than use them on Sarge et
> al.,
> otherwise do you have any thoughts on the best way to build/obtain them
> since I
> sind the thought of loading and building the entire GNU toolchain somewhat
> daunting :-/

Still avoidable, I'd say:

1) make all (to have the other packages compiled _and_ assembled)
2) cd ide
3) rm fp
4) make all "OPT=-s" (without cleaning the compiled units)
5) transfer the whole tree to the target (=slow) machine and run ppas.sh
there

Tomas