On 22 May 2010, at 10:52, Thierry Bothorel wrote:

> Reading makefile I understood why, now I wonder what is the benefit to
> add the "cross" string inside the compiler file name ?

When you build the entire source tree for a different architecture than the 
host architecture, both a cross-compiler and a native compiler are created. 
Both binaries are in fpc/compiler, so they have to have different names.


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