In our previous episode, Joao Morais said: > How ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.6.2/bootstrap > like lists are built? I missed at least i386-linux and i386-win32 > binaries.
They are simply the compiler binary extracted from the release in a bzipped format. It's mainly a facility for source based package systems like the *bsd ports, where the enduser routinely bootstraps compiler + source too. (if that is sane, is a different question, specially in FPC's case which won't reuse global CFLAGS, but tradition...) That's why you see all BSD binaries uploaded, and other majority platforms are missing. Win32/64 in particular is useless, since there you need the binutils in the release package anyway. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
