On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Daniel Herzog wrote:
> Okay. I'll totally rephrase this now: > > Gentoo builds (almost) everything from source. > This is done via ebuilds. > There is grap this file: > ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/beta/source-1.9.8/fpc-1.9.8.source.tar.gz > And compile and install it. > > To do this, i need a starting compiler, nothing more. > > It would be nice to have a starting compiler like here: > ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/beta/source-1.9.8/ppcARCH > > And it would also be nice if you only need the version of your source - > like 1.9.8 - and can script the location of the starting compiler from > that. Like, in my case: > ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/beta/source-${MY_P}/ppcARCH > Which means, the location of the starting compiler should please not > change randomly, but change with the versions...like the source tarballs > also do. > > Another thing needed is, surprise!, that the corresponding starting > compiler works, e.g. always is the binary taken from here: > ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/Linux/ARCH/separate/binary.tar > But without all the unit's and stuff, which isnt needed to bootstrap... > > > I hope this clarified things a bit... This was clear from the beginning :) But thank you for taking the trouble yo elaborate. We're discussing on the core list how we can accomodate for things like this. We'll send a mail with the outcome. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
