[Pkg-pascal-devel] Debugging FPC build issue on m68k

[Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)]

Hi,

On Tue, 4 Aug 2020, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

> On 8/4/20 5:33 PM, Abou Al Montacir wrote:

> > I started looking at the m68k build issue, but the buildd logs are not
> > enough to understand what happens. I tried to find a m68k machine on
> > porter boxes but failed to find any. Also building a qemu image does
> > not seem as straight forward as I expected, so I'd like to know if
> > anybody can help providing access to a machine or a qemu image that I
> > can download. Of course, any help to debug this issue is more than
> > welcome.
>
> I have already reported this issue upstream [1], but so far I have not
> received any feedback. Charlie (CC'ed) from upstream who is mainly
> responsible for the m68k backend as far as I know said he would look
> into it.
>
> If you want to set up a Debian/m68k VM yourself, please have a look at [2].

Sorry for the delayed response, yes, we in upstream are willing to fix the
issue, although we run regular tests with QEMU, and those are looking
good. So not sure what could cause that build problem, but we're also
mostly doing cross-builds with m68k, not native builds.

I know I promised to look into this, but never really had time in the last
few weeks, sorry about it. It turned out, our SVN trunk was broken for
Linux-m68k, so I fixed that meanwhile, but FPC 3.2.0 was forked earlier to
that breakage, so if there's an issue it must be different. I'll get
there, meanwhile but of course any input is welcome.

Charlie