Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Mon, May 29, 2017 14:14, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 01:09:05PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> I tried adding "-32" like this: > > Even passing "-Av8plus" does not help. So, the options from > compiler/sparc/cpugas.pas are definitely not passed to the

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Mon, 29 May 2017, Tomas Hajny wrote: > > It is, but it's *pregenerated*, and committed to the SVN. The build > > process doesn't generate any Makefiles, actually. (Lets not argue now it > > is a nice practice or not, it is what it is...) To fix this, one has to > > regenerate them. But

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 03:59:37PM +0200, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > Obviously, the startup compiler doesn't have the -32 fix, so this is why > it failed for you, but this option inject this option externally. Ok, I'm an idiot. I completely forgot about fixing the stage0 compiler ... >

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Mon, 29 May 2017, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > Which is because the buildbox doesn't have these 32bit libraries > installed, so FPC obviously cannot link against them. This is because the > very limited multiarch you mentioned before I guess. Now, FPC doesn't need > Libc on linux

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 29/05/17 11:12, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: Hi, On Mon, 29 May 2017, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: My recollection is that the SPARC64 code generator is immature,> hopefully Jonas will comment on that. Not sure what "immature" means, granted, I don't know anything aboutSPARC, but from

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 02:14:26PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 01:09:05PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > I tried adding "-32" like this: > > Even passing "-Av8plus" does not help. So, the options from > compiler/sparc/cpugas.pas are definitely

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Mon, May 29, 2017 14:35, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: . . > It is, but it's *pregenerated*, and committed to the SVN. The build > process doesn't generate any Makefiles, actually. (Lets not argue now it > is a nice practice or not, it is what it is...) To fix this, one has to >

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 05/29/2017 03:20 PM, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > I'm also sitting in Berlin, so we're having different delusions from the > heat then... :) BTW, I sent you a pubkey. But I'm in the south-west of Berlin. Much hotter here :D. I'll create you an account in a minute. > It's easy to test

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 01:09:05PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I tried adding "-32" like this: Even passing "-Av8plus" does not help. So, the options from compiler/sparc/cpugas.pas are definitely not passed to the assembler. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' :

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Mon, 29 May 2017, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 02:14:26PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 01:09:05PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > I tried adding "-32" like this: > > > > Even passing "-Av8plus" does not

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 02:31:05PM +0200, Tomas Hajny wrote: > Are you sure that you rebuilt the compiler completely after your change > and that you invoked the right (newly built) version while testing the > performed change? Do you call 'fpc', or 'ppcsparc' while testing it (the > former may

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Mon, 29 May 2017, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 02:57:51PM +0200, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > > Indeed, this worked. Also, not sure what Adrian was doing wrong, but I > > added -32 into sparc/cpugas.pas file as I said, and from then on I started > >

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 02:25:34PM +0200, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > > > Even passing "-Av8plus" does not help. So, the options from > > > compiler/sparc/cpugas.pas are definitely not passed to the assembler. > > I'm looking into it now. Stay tuned. I managed to reproduce your linker >

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Mon, May 29, 2017 14:29, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: . . >> > From the build log: >> > >> > as -o /root/fpc/fpc-3.0.0+dfsg/fpcsrc/rtl/units/sparc-linux/prt0.o >> sparc/prt0.as >> > as -o >> /root/fpc/fpc-3.0.0+dfsg/fpcsrc/rtl/units/sparc-linux/dllprt0.o >> sparc/dllprt0.as >> > as -o

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Mon, 29 May 2017, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 02:25:34PM +0200, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > > > > Even passing "-Av8plus" does not help. So, the options from > > > > compiler/sparc/cpugas.pas are definitely not passed to the assembler. > > > > I'm

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 02:35:28PM +0200, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > > But isn't the Makefile generated from fpcmake? :-O > > It is, but it's *pregenerated*, and committed to the SVN. The build > process doesn't generate any Makefiles, actually. (Lets not argue now it > is a nice

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Mon, 29 May 2017, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > In the end, I want to build the Debian package. So, the patches have > to apply against that version. Well. I applied a 1 line patch against rtl/linux/Makefile.fpc, to append -32 when it builds the startup code, regenerated the

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Mon, 29 May 2017, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Which is because the buildbox doesn't have these 32bit libraries > > installed, so FPC obviously cannot link against them. This is because the > > very limited multiarch you mentioned before I guess. Now, FPC doesn't need > > Libc on

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 02:57:51PM +0200, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > Indeed, this worked. Also, not sure what Adrian was doing wrong, but I > added -32 into sparc/cpugas.pas file as I said, and from then on I started > getting 32 bit object files, and after fixing the Makefile, I got a

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 04:04:00PM +0200, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > > I'll just install that, second. > > Oh, ok. Nice. :) I'll wait then. libc6-sparc was already installed: root@deb4g:~# apt show libc6-sparc Package: libc6-sparc Version: 2.24-10 Priority: optional Section: libs

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Mon, 29 May 2017, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > make all ASTARGET=-32 OPT="-ao-32 -Fo/usr/lib32 -Fl/usr/lib32" So Adrian, I've got a question. Looking at fixing this in the right way, the linker search paths at least. What's the right directory to search for libs and objects in

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Mon, 29 May 2017, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Make sure to pass -L/lib32 to the linker because that's where libc6-sparc > gets installed into: > > root@deb4g:~# dpkg -L libc6-sparc |head > /. > /etc > /etc/ld.so.conf.d > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/zz_sparc-biarch-compat.conf > /lib > /lib32

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Mon, 29 May 2017, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > Plus you need to fix the Makefile.fpc in rtl/linux to include -32 for > SPARC, and regenerate it using fpcmake -Tall. Then everything works. Maybe > it's also possible to just add ASTARGET=-32 into the make command line, > without

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Mon, 29 May 2017, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Can you try if you can reproduce this? > > Sure. Can you put the cross-compiled ppcsparc somewhere so I can find > and use it? You don't need one. :) See my other mail. Although I did crosscompile a new bootstrap compiler, in the end

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Mon, 29 May 2017, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > Like this: > > make all ASTARGET=-32 OPT="-ao-32 -Fo/usr/lib32 -Fl/usr/lib32" > > This builds current 3.1.1 SVN with the preinstalled 3.0.2 package on the > Debian SPARC64 box without patching anything. Just for the record, the same

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Mon, 29 May 2017, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > However, it should probably not be merged to fixes, because it may be a > > breaking change for older Sparc/Linux versions (see my previous e-mail; > > note that the situation with MIPS was probably different, because the > > support

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 05:35:37PM +0200, Tomas Hajny wrote: > However, it should probably not be merged to fixes, because it may be a > breaking change for older Sparc/Linux versions (see my previous e-mail; > note that the situation with MIPS was probably different, because the > support of that

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 05:55:46PM +0200, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > From what I can see, binutils 2.9.1, released 1/5/1998 (19+ years ago) > already has it for SPARC (according to the man page). :) But binutils > 2.8.1 from 20 years ago, still didn't. So it was added between those >

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Mon, 29 May 2017, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > However, these also seem to be installed in /usr/lib32... So build running > now, lets see what happens. Different error: ... :/ I would gladly keep working on this, but I kinda ran out of time for now, I can take a deeper look maybe

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 04:59:16PM +0200, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > Did a last attempt, and bingo. :) Awesome \o/. > make all OPTS="-ao-32 -Fo/usr/lib32 -Fl/usr/lib32" > > Then everything builds, including the FP IDE, and all tools as expected. > > Plus you need to fix the

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 05:11:52PM +0200, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > Err, sorry, there's a typo in the previous line I've sent. here's the > correct one. Also, ASTARGET= override seems to work, so you don't need to > patch the sources, you can fix it during build with options. > > Like

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Mon, May 29, 2017 17:28, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 29 May 2017, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > >> Like this: >> >> make all ASTARGET=-32 OPT="-ao-32 -Fo/usr/lib32 -Fl/usr/lib32" >> >> This builds current 3.1.1 SVN with the preinstalled 3.0.2 package on the >>

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Mon, May 29, 2017 17:35, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 05:11:52PM +0200, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) > wrote: . . >> Now, if you want to patch the compiler for this, or simply wire >> additional options to the package supplied fpc.cfg with the right >> paths and

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Mon, 29 May 2017, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > > However, these also seem to be installed in /usr/lib32... So build running > > now, lets see what happens. > > Different error: ... :/ I would gladly keep working on this, but I kinda > ran out of time for now, I can take a deeper

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Mon, May 29, 2017 17:17, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > On Mon, 29 May 2017, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi, . . >> Well, all the -32 options should definitely go into trunk. Upstream >> doesn't support anything but 32 bits for SPARC anyway and after >> looking at the

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 29/05/17 15:15, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: Hi, On Mon, 29 May 2017, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: Plus you need to fix the Makefile.fpc in rtl/linux to include -32 for> SPARC, and regenerate it using fpcmake -Tall. Then everything works. Maybe> it's also possible to just add

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 29.05.2017 um 17:35 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: > On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 05:11:52PM +0200, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: >> Err, sorry, there's a typo in the previous line I've sent. here's the >> correct one. Also, ASTARGET= override seems to work, so you don't need to >> patch

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 29.05.2017 um 10:37 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: >> And/or completely unprepared for 64bit in any way. > > I actually don't think there would be much work necessary. fpc already > supports SPARCv9 which is actually by default a 64-bit architecture > (also known as UltraSPARC). Well, fpc

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 05/29/2017 10:22 PM, Florian Klämpfl wrote: > Well, fpc has a SPARCv9 switch, but it does little to none and it was only > supposed to enable > SPARCv9 instructions in 32 bit only mode. SPARC64 is another story: it needs > some more work, it is > basically a new target for the compiler though

[fpc-devel] Bootstrapping for ppc64el

2017-05-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! I'm now trying to bootstrap fpc for ppc64el which unfortunately fails. I'm using this command line: BINUTILSPREFIX=powerpc64le-linux-gnu- make crossall crossinstall CPU_TARGET=powerpc64 CROSSOPT="-CaELFV2 -dFPC_LITTLE_ENDIAN" OS_TARGET=linux FPC=/usr/lib/fpc/3.0.0/ppcx64

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Sun, 28 May 2017, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > When trying to cross-build fpc for sparc64, I ran into linker issues. I was > able to resolve these when changing the ELF format from 32 to 64 bits in > compiler/system/t_linux.pas and changing the dynamic loader path from >

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Mon, 29 May 2017, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Running the file utility on one of the object files shows that the > assembler did not generate 32-bit code. So, at least a hotfix here > would be to pass "-m32" to the assembler. That is easy to add, see in compiler/sparc/cpugas.pas,

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 29/05/17 08:15, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: Hi, On Sun, 28 May 2017, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: When trying to cross-build fpc for sparc64, I ran into linker issues. I was> able to resolve these when changing the ELF format from 32 to 64 bits in> compiler/system/t_linux.pas

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 10:03:57AM +0200, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > > When trying to cross-build fpc for sparc64, I ran into linker issues. I was > > able to resolve these when changing the ELF format from 32 to 64 bits in > > compiler/system/t_linux.pas and changing the dynamic

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 10:37:42AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Although we still seem to have a stable 3.0.2 release. Can you try > > if the stable release built by us works on your system? Any binary > > from this. > > > > ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/3.0.2/sparc-linux/

[fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! I'm one of Debian's sparc64 porters and we're currently in the process of getting the sparc64 port back in shape so it can part of the official release, superceding Debian's old sparc port. Naturally, I was trying to bootstrap fpc for Debian/sparc64. However, I noticed that - despite

[fpc-devel] Problems signing up on the bug tracker

2017-05-29 Thread Rob Roland
Hi there, I'm having trouble getting registered in Mantis - the confirmation links it sends don't work. I get a "The confirmation URL is invalid or has already been used. Please signup again." error every time. I'm working on extending the ARM embedded microchip support to add the Beaglebone

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 08:45:32AM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > The important thing to know about the linker on 32-bit Solaris is the -Xn > option to force the native one to be used. Apart from that more info is > needed before anybody here can comment. Looking at

[fpc-devel] list server outtage

2017-05-29 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, The list server rebooted this morning. We're investigating with the hosting service why. If you got mails multiple times or your mail got lost, this is why. By now, everything should be back to normal. Sorry about the inconvenience. Charlie ___

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 11:53:26AM +0200, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > > Running the file utility on one of the object files shows that the > > assembler did not generate 32-bit code. So, at least a hotfix here > > would be to pass "-m32" to the assembler. > > That is easy to add, see in

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Mon, 29 May 2017, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > My recollection is that the SPARC64 code generator is immature, > hopefully Jonas will comment on that. Not sure what "immature" means, granted, I don't know anything about SPARC, but from what I see, FPC definitely handles SPARC as a 32bit

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting fpc to linux-sparc64

2017-05-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 12:46:57PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 11:53:26AM +0200, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > > > Running the file utility on one of the object files shows that the > > > assembler did not generate 32-bit code. So, at least a hotfix

Re: [fpc-devel] Bootstrapping for ppc64el

2017-05-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 05/29/2017 10:34 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Building without -dFPC_LITTLE_ENDIAN produces a binary which doesn't work on > an actual ppc64el machine: Aha. Passing "-Cb-" works and yields a little-endian binary. -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer -