Re: [fpc-pascal] Question regarding building fpc from sources
On Thu, 30 Nov 2023 10:50:02 +0100 (CET), Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote: >> Somewhere in the process above the newly built compiler/ppcarm disappears >> from >> the compiler dir >> >> Is this what should happen or is it an error? > >Because installing sources requires a 'clean' source tree, >'make sourceinstall' does a clean first. > >So you should not do this as long as the compiler binary has not been >moved somewhere else. (the make install normally does this). > >Michael. Thanks for the explanation! This explains how it does work then, makes sense since the make install places the compiler elsewhere in a standardized way and creates the symlinks for starting it. I assume that the normal way to use fpc is to have one compiler version and not move back and forth between them? And move up once the next is released only. Right now the highest release version I have compiled is ver 3.2.2 I have also built 3.2.3, which I guess is a testing release not for general use? I will set 3.2.2 as the one to use on my 32 bit RPi4B devices. There is/was a problem on RPi4B with PiOS 64 bit regarding building from sources so I will revisit that and check what will work. -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
Re: [fpc-pascal] Question regarding building fpc from sources
On Wed, 29 Nov 2023, Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal wrote: I have for many years been building my Linux versions of fpc and lazarus from sources downloaded first from the svn repository and later from github. When doing the build on a new Linux system I need a seed compiler for the platform and I usually get that from earlier builds on other devices. To simplify things I have made tgz archives of the compilers I have built and put them on my website so I can then use wget on a new device to download them into the fpc dir on that platform. Now there has been a bit of pause in these activities and I am trying to catch up so I wanted to create the tgz files for two compilers on my latest build system (a Raspberry Pi4B running 32 bit bookworm OS). After building 3.2.2 using a compiler I already had in the fpc dir I exctracted the ppcarm compiler from the compiler directory in the source tree and put it into a tgz archive. But amazingly when I tried to locate the output compiler from when I built the 3.2.0 version a week ago it has disappeared! No trace of it inside the fpc/3.2.0/compiler directory! The difference from the newly built compiler is that a week ago I also ran the make install command to put source files etc into a directory below my $HOME dir. This step is not yet done for 3.2.2 My script does this for the install operations (variables set before of course). The current dir for the command is at the top of the source tree such as $HOME/devel/fpc/3.2.0 make install PREFIX="$HOME" FPC="$HOME/devel/fpc/3.2.0/compiler/$FPCCOMPILER" rm "$HOME/bin/$FPCCOMPILER" ln -sf "$HOME/lib/fpc/3.2.0/$FPCCOMPILER" "$HOME/bin/$FPCCOMPILER" make sourceinstall PREFIX="$HOME" FPC="$HOME/bin/$FPCCOMPILER" $HOME/lib/fpc/3.2.2/samplecfg $HOME/lib/fpc/3.2.2 $HOME mv "$HOME/fpc.cfg" "$HOME/.fpc.cfg" Somewhere in the process above the newly built compiler/ppcarm disappears from the compiler dir Is this what should happen or is it an error? Because installing sources requires a 'clean' source tree, 'make sourceinstall' does a clean first. So you should not do this as long as the compiler binary has not been moved somewhere else. (the make install normally does this). Michael. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
[fpc-pascal] Question regarding building fpc from sources
I have for many years been building my Linux versions of fpc and lazarus from sources downloaded first from the svn repository and later from github. When doing the build on a new Linux system I need a seed compiler for the platform and I usually get that from earlier builds on other devices. To simplify things I have made tgz archives of the compilers I have built and put them on my website so I can then use wget on a new device to download them into the fpc dir on that platform. Now there has been a bit of pause in these activities and I am trying to catch up so I wanted to create the tgz files for two compilers on my latest build system (a Raspberry Pi4B running 32 bit bookworm OS). After building 3.2.2 using a compiler I already had in the fpc dir I exctracted the ppcarm compiler from the compiler directory in the source tree and put it into a tgz archive. But amazingly when I tried to locate the output compiler from when I built the 3.2.0 version a week ago it has disappeared! No trace of it inside the fpc/3.2.0/compiler directory! The difference from the newly built compiler is that a week ago I also ran the make install command to put source files etc into a directory below my $HOME dir. This step is not yet done for 3.2.2 My script does this for the install operations (variables set before of course). The current dir for the command is at the top of the source tree such as $HOME/devel/fpc/3.2.0 make install PREFIX="$HOME" FPC="$HOME/devel/fpc/3.2.0/compiler/$FPCCOMPILER" rm "$HOME/bin/$FPCCOMPILER" ln -sf "$HOME/lib/fpc/3.2.0/$FPCCOMPILER" "$HOME/bin/$FPCCOMPILER" make sourceinstall PREFIX="$HOME" FPC="$HOME/bin/$FPCCOMPILER" $HOME/lib/fpc/3.2.2/samplecfg $HOME/lib/fpc/3.2.2 $HOME mv "$HOME/fpc.cfg" "$HOME/.fpc.cfg" Somewhere in the process above the newly built compiler/ppcarm disappears from the compiler dir Is this what should happen or is it an error? -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
