[Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#845498: Bug#845498: Bug#845498: /usr/bin/fpc-3.0.0: Provide cross-compilers

[Helmut Grohne]

Hi Abou,

I'm sorry for having dropped the ball on this and missed replying.

On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 02:52:08PM +0100, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> Hi Helmut,
> On Fri, 2021-01-22 at 10:06 +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> > > We already patch the compiler to call ld.bfd instead of ld, so we can change
> > > thename as you wish.
> > 
> > Can you implement just this part and poke me once that has hit unstable?I can
> > send a patch for the next step then.
> I did not really patch this, but while looking for such a way to patch, I
> discovered a nice command line option -XP.
> This ca be used as follows:
> fpc -XPx86_64-linux-gnu- myprogramfpc -Pi386 -XPi386-linux-gnu- myprogram
> It should be possible to hack the default value of this CLO so that we can make
> it point to the right triplet.
> Does this fit your need?

Yes, this sounds right. Note that your value of -XP should always be
non-empty on Debian - even when building natively. Doing so allows using
e.g. binutils-i686-linux-gnu:amd64 and thus linking objects that would
exceed the address space of 32bit.

My offer to continue working on this and sending patches is still
active despite the delay.

Helmut