[Lazarus] FPC/Lazarus on non-x86 BSD

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Marco van de Voort wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 08:38:14AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> I'm exploring alternatives to Debian on SPARC. One of the obvious ones 
>> is BSD which (I presume) will need some cross-builds to get FPC going.
> 
> No, you will need to port FPC to those targets. The BSD rtls are afaik not
> Sparc ready.  (though there is not that much architecture dependent, and
> much can be copied from Linux I guess).
>  
>> Can anybody comment on /which/ BSD variant is likely to add fewest 
>> problems to my heap?
> 
> FreeBSD is generally more advanced, but Netbsd and openbsd are usually more
> non x86 friendly. However that is old sentiment, I don't know the current
> situation.

Thanks, I'm not sure which direction I'm heading since Debian "Wheezy" 
on SPARC is badly broken (e.g. FireFox/IceWeasel won't run). I'll be 
trying "Sid" next to see if there's any hope at all, after that possibly 
revisiting Solaris followed by Gentoo and possibly xBSD.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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