On 2-9-2013 19:51, Sven Barth wrote:
Every other developer of FPC will tell you the same: The only
supported version for compiling a development (2.7.1) or fixes (2.6.3)
version is either the last release (2.6.2) or a development/fixes
version of the same revision and nothing else.
2.7.1 definitely is a development version and it sometimes happens
that things will break in a way that a older revision is no longer
able to build a newer one. We do not check for compatibility with
older revisions and the only way we guarantee that works is a
compilation with 2.6.2.
The softfloat 2.6.2 compiler should be able to compile a hard float
one and as far as I've understood the softfloat discussion it should
also work on hardfloat systems. Otherwise you could compile a
hardfloat compiler on a Debian system (using a 2.6.2 as starting
compiler), move that to your odroid U2 and build the compiler (of the
same revision!) with that (the compiler does not use libc or any other
library so you can freely move it between Linux systems).
Regards,
Sven
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Your answer is to the point and right.
It is of ultimate importance, though, that the compiler options for
armXX have changed considerably since 2.6.2/3.
For my Friday toys (Pi's) I use 2.7.1 with the new ARM options and
bootstrap with OVERRIDEVERSIONCHECK=1
I think that is a perfectly viable option.
Maybe it is just a case of pointing out exactly that.
There are still no public makefiles that support those options, afaik.
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