Questions for new package: Freepascal

[Joost van der Sluis]

On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 14:22 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 20:02 +0200, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
> > I'm willing to try to add Freepascal (www.freepascal.org). That's a
> > pascal compiler, which is written in pascal - to compile it you need a
> > binary version of the compiler already.
> > 
> > So you always have to provide a binary executable, with which the
> > compiler could be build.
> > 
> > I'm don't know what your policies are around such things. (Are there
> > any?)
> > 
> > I could include the compiler-binaries in a second 'source-file' into the
> > RPM. That should work. But I dont know if you guys would appreciate
> > that.
> > 
> > Any thoughts on this?
> 
> Ew. Maybe the binary can be included for the first iteration and then
> removed for the second. The various platforms are likely going to be an
> issue though.

Do I really have to delete it? The makefiles are designed in such a way
that you can specify a 'startcompiler'. So the first iteration is with
the startcompiler, second and third iterations with the last compiled
compiler.

Binaries are available for i386, amd64/x86 64, powerpc and sparc.
Detecting which binary should be used is easy.

On which platforms must it be available?

Joost van der Sluis.