On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 07:39 +0100, peter green wrote: > Package: FPC > Severity: important > Tags: patch > > I have recently produced a working port of freepascal to armhf. The > patch has been submitted upstream at > http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=21554 and has been accepted in > trunk http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=20660
Great news, thanks > The patch attatched contains > > * a backport of the armhf implementation to 2.6.0 (only minor changes > needed). > * a fix for incomplete cleanup after running debian/rules clean > * add code to debian/rules to explicitly specify which arm variant we > want in the call to make compiler_cycle. This allows us to use a > starting compiler from one arm variant to bootstrap another. > * use DEB_*_ARCH_CPU rather than DEB_*_ARCH for working out the "CPU > source" and "CPU target" removing the need to special case armel and > avoiding the need to add a new special case for armhf. > > I've tested that passing floating point parameters to C code works > correctly with this patch. I've also tested lazarus with this port of > fpc and it seems to work well enough to load the IDE and compile and run > the default project. I'll review the patch and apply it for next upload. Still waiting to see *BSD support working ;) > P.S. I'm currently in the process of applying to become a dd and would > like to become a comaintainer of the fpc package. For me you are welcome. I hope you a good chance in the process. Mine is stalled since 3 years now. Carlos, Torsten, Do you think it would be good to create a pascal debian group for maintaining FPC, Lazarus and possible MSE ide MSE gui? Cheers,
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