[fpc-pascal] Compiling the compiler

[Tomas Hajny]

On 27 Jul 06, at 19:01, Andreas Berger wrote:

> Tomas Hajny wrote:
> > No wonder. ;-) When using "make all", the new 
> > (2.1.1) compiler is compiled using the starting 
> > compiler (2.0.x). "Make cycle" tries to make sure 
> > that the created compiler is still useable, at 
> > least that useable that it can still build 
> > itself. It does so by doing the same thing in a 
> > cycle:
> >
> > 1) RTL and compiler (ppc1.exe) are compiled using 
> > the starting compiler.
> >
> > 2) Everything except ppc1.exe is cleaned, RTL and 
> > compiler (ppc2.exe) are compiled using ppc1.exe.
> >
> > 3) Everything except ppc2.exe is cleaned, RTL and 
> > compiler (ppc3.exe) are compiled using ppc2.exe.
> >
> > 4) ppc2.exe and ppc3.exe are compared - they 
> > should be equal. If they are the same, ppc3.exe 
> > is renamed to ppc386.exe.
> >
> > 5) If you build more than just the compiler (e.g. 
> > snapshot or release - i.e. this last step isn't 
> > part of "make cycle" any more), the newly created 
> > ppc386.exe is used for compilation of RTL, FCL, 
> > FV, packages and IDE.
> >   
> So you mean that the newly created compiler is giving the error?

Specifically, with ppc1.exe (which is 2.1.1 
compiler already if working with 2.1.1 sources) - 
you should be able to see this in the log/make 
output.

Tomas