Re: [fpc-pascal] SPARC / Linux

2017-03-12 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 12/03/17 18:00, Pierre Free Pascal wrote: -Message d'origine-> De : fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] De la> part de Mark Morgan Lloyd> Envoyé : dimanche 12 mars 2017 11:14> À : fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> Objet : Re: [fpc-pascal] SPARC / Linux> >

Re: [fpc-pascal] SPARC / Linux

2017-03-12 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 12/03/17 18:30, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-03-12 13:04, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:> I've spoken to people who gave me to understand that SPARC had a bit > more life in it on xBSD than on Linux, and if it's still viable there as > a 32-bit target it might be preferable. Under FreeBSD,

Re: [fpc-pascal] SPARC / Linux

2017-03-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-03-12 13:04, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > I've spoken to people who gave me to understand that SPARC had a bit > more life in it on xBSD than on Linux, and if it's still viable there as > a 32-bit target it might be preferable. Under FreeBSD, SPARC64 seems more supported that 32-bit.

Re: [fpc-pascal] SPARC / Linux

2017-03-12 Thread Pierre Free Pascal
> -Message d'origine- > De : fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] De la > part de Mark Morgan Lloyd > Envoyé : dimanche 12 mars 2017 11:14 > À : fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > Objet : Re: [fpc-pascal] SPARC / Linux > > ANYBODY: The SPARC mirror pages have a

Re: [fpc-pascal] SPARC / Linux

2017-03-12 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 12/03/17 12:00, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-03-11 20:06, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:> From the architecture side of things, Linux (which in practice means > Debian) is in deep trouble on SPARC. The core problem is that for the One could always try FreeBSD + SPARC too.

Re: [fpc-pascal] SPARC / Linux

2017-03-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-03-11 20:06, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > From the architecture side of things, Linux (which in practice means > Debian) is in deep trouble on SPARC. The core problem is that for the One could always try FreeBSD + SPARC too. https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/sparc.html Regards,

Re: [fpc-pascal] SPARC / Linux

2017-03-12 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
ANYBODY: The SPARC mirror pages have a 3.0.2 MIPS binary on them. On 11/03/17 22:00, Pierre Free Pascal wrote: If you are adventurous,you might want to try the experimental files in:ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/contrib/test-cross-3.0.2/ it does contain a partial installer for