On Fr, 2017-11-10 at 18:22 +0100, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2017, Marc Santhoff wrote: > > > What is that, is ppc used for bootstrapping the cross compiler > > regardless of any other fpc maybe installed? > > Yes. First that ppc gets built with the "other FPC" installed. Or you can > specify a startup compiler explicitly with FPC= argument to the make. It > doesn't even need the rtl or anything, just the "ppcXXX" native compiler. > > During the first round it builds this new native compiler + rtl which will > be used to bootstrap the actual crosscompiler then.
Ok. So I have a newer compiler for the base system built on the fly, nice. Thanks, Marc _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
