Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (89 mails)

[Peter Czanik <pczanik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marcus Rueckert wrote:

> On 2005-12-01 13:13:41 +0100, Peter Czanik wrote:
>  
>
> > Anyone tried to compile Free Pascal Compiler on openSUSE? It's on the 
> > whishlist ( http://www.opensuse.org/Wishlist_Productivity#F ), added by 
> > somebody else, but I need it as well. I wanted to compile it. They have 
> > source rpm as well ( http://www.freepascal.org/download.html ). Just one 
> > little problem: fpc is required to compile itself ;-) Would be nice, if 
> > somebody solved this 'catch 22' for 10.1! Bye,
> >    
>
> there is no way to bootstrap fpc? just like GCC?
>  
Binaries of FPC are available. But I could not build FPC from source 
RPMs using these binaries, and I can't imagine, how this could be used 
with y2pmbuild, which prepares a clean environment from RPMs. Bye,
CzP