[fpc-devel] Building cross-compilers

[Alfred]

Hello,

As maintainer of fpcup[deluxe], I have a fundamental question.

The original source of fpcup gives the possibility to build a
cross-compiler either with the compiler build from source or with the
bootstrapper that was used to build the compiler from source.

My question: am I correct in assuming that a cross-compiler should
always be build with the compiler from the source itself ?

Thanks.

[Jonas Maebe]

Post by Alfred
My question: am I correct in assuming that a cross-compiler should
always be build with the compiler from the source itself ?

It is best, yes. Although this does not happen very often any more,
sometimes ppc1 (which is used to build the cross-compiler) does not
contain all fixes/features in case the last stable release had a bug
that gets triggered by the compiler/rtl code from trunk.


Jonas
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