On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 12:13 -0600, Peter B. Steiger wrote:
> Apparently, there is *no way* to natively build the original compiler!
> All the instructions at the above link ("compiling the compiler") rely
> on starting with an existing copy of FPC.  So you must install a
> prebuilt package first, then use that package to build from source.  I'm
> very confused.

It's not particularly unusual - we do the same with gcc when building
LFS, afterall, since gcc is written in C. Presumably FPC is written in
Pascal.

Simon.

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