[Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#963623: fpc: Please enable build on ppc64el

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi Paul!

On 6/25/20 8:57 AM, Paul Gevers wrote:
> On 24-06-2020 19:54, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> Unfortunately, I have not been able to successfully bootstrap FPC on
>> Debian using the binaries provided by upstream due to issues with the
>> install path ("powerpc64-linux" vs. "powerpc64el-linux").
>>
>> After spending more than an hour, I'm giving up on this and hope that the
>> package maintainers find a way to get the package to build.
> 
> Have you also considered trying cross-building? fpc is supposed to
> support that relatively well. Not that I have any experience on that
> front; all my tries to (natively) bootstrap new architectures for fpc
> have failed. I have spent quite some time to support the libc
> "architecture" in fpc, to enable us to support all Debian architectures,
> but without success (see for history bug #551400). I for myself will not
> try again to bootstrap fpc on an architecture any time soon.

It seems more a packaging problem to me. Normally bootstrapping is very
simple, but for some reason, FPC is not using the proper paths.

I will talk to the upstream contacts I have and see if they can help
me.

Adrian

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