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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