[fpc-pascal] Re: Bootstrap binaries

Reinier Olislagers reinierolislagers at gmail.com
Mon Mar 4 10:56:25 CET 2013


On 4-3-2013 10:48, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
> On 4-3-2013 10:19, Marco van de Voort wrote:
>> It's mainly a facility for source based package systems like the *bsd ports,
>> where the enduser routinely bootstraps compiler + source too.
>> (if that is sane, is a different question, specially in FPC's case which won't
>> reuse global CFLAGS, but tradition...)
>>
>> That's why you see all BSD binaries uploaded, and other majority platforms
>> are missing.
>>
>> Win32/64 in particular is useless, since there you need the binutils in the
>> release package anyway.
> 
> Well, Ludo Brands and I *did* build a tool that gets the binutils[1] if
> they're not there and proceeds to build fpc+Lazarus afer svn checkout
> for Linux and Windows (and perhaps it still works on OSX, haven't tested
> for a long while).
> 
> I would be *very* happy with the win32 and 64 builds.

... of the bootstrap compilers of course. Likewise for Linux x64 and x86.




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