[Lazarus] Syntax error compiling fpc 3.0.0 3.0.0rc1 3.0.0rc2

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Donald Ziesig wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I ran out of room on the raspberry pi's 8GB NOOBS SD card so I just 
> created a new SD 16GB card with the latest version of Raspbian.  I got 
> all of the usual tools working in short order (VNC, SSH, FTP,...).
> 
> Then I decided to build a completely new version of FreePascal and 
> Lazarus from source (just to prove that I can ;-) ), but I can't compile 
> any style of fpc 3.0.0 from:
> 
>     svn co http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/tags/release_3_0_0_rc2 fpc2
>     svn co http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/tags/release_3_0_0_rc1 fpc1
>     svn co http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/branches/fixes_3_0 fpc
> 
> I am using fpc 2.6.4 as the bootstrap compiler.

make sure you start off with a binary tailored for the Rpi. I think that 
the last time I started from scratch I got it from

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mseide-msegui/files/fpcarm/

Current Raspbian provides the necessary prerequisites, but you might 
need to tweak fpc.cfg or provide an explicit -Fl.

> The compilation then ran to completion but the build failed because 
> "Binary files ppp3 and ppcarm differ".  (Why there are two executables 
> and what it means that they are different is beyond me :-[ ).

Because the standard build checks that repeated recompilations are 
substantially the same.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
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