Re: Freepascal

2006-05-10 Thread Nicolas FRANCOIS
Le Wed, 10 May 2006 08:21:24 -0600 "Peter B. Steiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 23:15 +1200, Simon Geard wrote: > > 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 > > Pasca

Re: Freepascal

2006-05-10 Thread Peter B. Steiger
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 23:15 +1200, Simon Geard wrote: > 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. I realized that after I posted my comments. We don't really need to worry where the orig

Re: Freepascal

2006-05-10 Thread Simon Geard
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, t

Re: Freepascal

2006-05-09 Thread Peter B. Steiger
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 19:08 +0200, Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote: > Has anyone allready written a howto on this subject, or managed to > build > the compiler ? I found some information here, but it is not good news: http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/prog/progap6.html#x284-286000F Apparently, there is

Re: Freepascal

2006-05-09 Thread Peter B. Steiger
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 19:08 +0200, Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote: > Hi. > > I have some difficulties to compile the free pascal compiler. I'd like to > access the documentations on the freepascal.org site, but I can't reach > it. I tried just now (11:30 AM mountain time USA (GMT 18:30)) and it works fine

Freepascal

2006-05-09 Thread Nicolas FRANCOIS
Hi. I have some difficulties to compile the free pascal compiler. I'd like to access the documentations on the freepascal.org site, but I can't reach it. Has anyone allready written a howto on this subject, or managed to build the compiler ? Thanks. \bye -- Nicolas FRANCOI