[Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#813452: fpc-3.0 regression in armhf and armel architectures

[Abou Al Montacir]

Hi Paul,
On Wed, 2016-03-16 at 21:07 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi Abou
> 
> On 16-03-16 20:50, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Should somebody (me?) just build and upload?
> It is building now on armel¹.
> 
> > 
> > I did not manage to find time for more testing. The fact that I never
> > ran the FPC test suite doesn't help, but it may work from the first attempt.
> Uhmm, that is still work in progress, don't look at it too much.
> 
> > 
> > Any way, as PIC code never worked before in FPC, maybe we should upload
> > to testing and see if any issue is reported.
> As just written, I'd like to see that it actually helps.
> 
> > 
> > By the way, this fix opens the door to ship the FPC RTL as a shared
> > object and start using it. This of course requires a huge rework for our
> > packaging, but I think is a worth the pain goal. What do you think?
> Sure, great. But I am afraid that I can't be of much help there. But
> yes, the fact that the whole free pascal chain is doing static linking
> has been rather annoying.
> 
> If I understand correctly, this would solve bug 472304², right?
Yes this will solve this bug.

-- 
Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir
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