On 4-3-2013 10:19, Marco van de Voort wrote: > 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.
Well, Ludo Brands and I *did* build a tool that gets the binutils[1] if they're not there and proceeds to build fpc+Lazarus afer svn checkout for Linux and Windows (and perhaps it still works on OSX, haven't tested for a long while). I would be *very* happy with the win32 and 64 builds. [1] and an svn executable on Windows etc... _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
