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

[Paul Gevers]

Hi Adrian,

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.

Paul

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