Hi, On Thu, 20 Aug 2020, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
>> It turned out, our SVN trunk was broken for Linux-m68k, so I fixed that >> meanwhile, but FPC 3.2.0 was forked earlier to that breakage, so if >> there's an issue it must be different. I'll get there, meanwhile but of >> course any input is welcome. > > I looked deeper in the issue and it seems that it may be a bug in the > initial compiler /usr/bin/ppc68k which is used to bootstrap the cycle. > This compiler is of version 3.0.4+dfsg-23. Thanks for looking into this! Yeah, 3.0.4 is a very early version for m68k (after the m68k backend got revived), and the 3.0.4 was maybe the first ever version which really worked on Linux-m68k. So I was actually kinda surprised it even worked to that level, so it could be included in Debian... :) I would avoid fighting with that if possible. > So a possible way to overcome this is to perform a binary upload to > m68k. However I was not able to generate packages by cross compilation. I cross-built a recent 3.2.1 compiler from our fixes_3_2 branch (this will be released as 3.2.2, eventually), I uploaded it here: https://coderetro.net/temp/linux-m68k/ Can you try bootstrapping with this compiler binary? At least from FPC's perspective, you shouldn't need anything else, to initiate a cross build than a bootstrap compiler binary, and GNU binutils and make. Not sure if Debian needs anything else. If this also crashes, then I have to dig deeper to identify the problem, because 3.2.x will be with us for a while, and I'd like it to be built for Debian-m68k. Cheers, -- Charlie
