Hi Paul! On 6/25/20 8:57 AM, Paul Gevers wrote: > On 24-06-2020 19:54, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Unfortunately, I have not been able to successfully bootstrap FPC on >> Debian using the binaries provided by upstream due to issues with the >> install path ("powerpc64-linux" vs. "powerpc64el-linux"). >> >> After spending more than an hour, I'm giving up on this and hope that the >> package maintainers find a way to get the package to build. > > Have you also considered trying cross-building? fpc is supposed to > support that relatively well. Not that I have any experience on that > front; all my tries to (natively) bootstrap new architectures for fpc > have failed. I have spent quite some time to support the libc > "architecture" in fpc, to enable us to support all Debian architectures, > but without success (see for history bug #551400). I for myself will not > try again to bootstrap fpc on an architecture any time soon.
It seems more a packaging problem to me. Normally bootstrapping is very simple, but for some reason, FPC is not using the proper paths. I will talk to the upstream contacts I have and see if they can help me. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913