[Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#1052557: fpc: Compiler bootstrap for more release architectures

[Abou Al Montacir]

Hi David,

On Mon, 2024-01-01 at 22:34 +1100, David Bannon wrote:
> On 1/1/24 22:17, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 2023-12-31 at 17:07 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> > > Not claiming we should do that now, but in the past we supported arm64 
> > > in Debian well before we had an fpc version from upstream that supported
> > > it.
> FPC3.2.2 works fine with arm64 out of the box. I build my app on debian
> bookworm raspi in 64bit mode, all good. I suspect there is a problem with
> Bullseye, maybe thats what you are discussing ? 
Paul meant that in the past we did provide arm64 support despite the official
release was not providing such support.
That was possible thanks to several patches backported from FPC trunk to Debian
FPC release.

However, the ticket in question is about mips64el and riscv64, which are
supported currently by FPC master, but I fear 3.2.2 is too old to allow easily
backporting patches from master.

As an example, I've asked upstream to fix armhf capability bits and the patch
was not obvious to port that they are considering creating a new 3.2.2 dedicated
patch for it.

> > If someone is going to send patches for that, I'll help a bit, but for now
> > my first goal is to get GTK3 working for Lazarus and that is already taking
> > all my time.
> And your efforts are really, really appreciated !
Thank you!
-- 
Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir
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