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bootstrapping FPC trunk

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waldo kitty

i have used (some time ago) the wiki page about pulling FPC and Lazarus from SVN and bootstrapping them... i have scripts that follow that process on my winboxen pretty closely so that i don't have to remember all the details...

one of the steps was to make a directory binutils and inside there was place a ppc386.exe... what i have in there now is the 2.6.0 exe... then there is a directory inside binutils named i386-win32 what i guess are the build tools... eg: ar.exe, as.exe, cmp.exe. diff.exe, gdb.exe and so on...

my usable installs of FPC and Lazarus remain inside the directories that are created and SVN managed specifically for them... so my questions are

1. can FPC 2.6.0 (bootstrap) be used to bootstrap trunk or do i need to replace my current binutils/ppc386.exe with the 2.6.2 one?

2. do i need to update my binutils/i386-win32 directory? everything in there is physically dated 21 May 2012 which i guess is when i reinstalled everything from scratch the last time... the SVN URL that i used for that directory is http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcbuild/branches/fixes_2_6/install/binw32 and and according to the properties, it looks like it is actually dated 11 Dec 2011...

thanks for your time and attention :)

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Sven Barth
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waldo kitty wrote
1. can FPC 2.6.0 (bootstrap) be used to bootstrap trunk or do i need to replace my current binutils/ppc386.exe with the 2.6.2 one?

You can still use 2.6.0, but it won't be supported forever.

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2. do i need to update my binutils/i386-win32 directory? everything in there is physically dated 21 May 2012 which i guess is when i reinstalled everything from scratch the last time... the SVN URL that i used for that directory is http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcbuild/branches/fixes_2_6/install/binw32 and and according to the properties, it looks like it is actually dated 11 Dec 2011...

I would say that you don't need to update it.

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Sven

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Joost van der Sluis

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1. can FPC 2.6.0 (bootstrap) be used to bootstrap trunk or do i need to replace my current binutils/ppc386.exe with the 2.6.2 one?

Officially: yes. In practice: no.

But the 'in practice' part can change. ;)

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2. do i need to update my binutils/i386-win32 directory? everything in there is physically dated 21 May 2012 which i guess is when i reinstalled everything from scratch the last time... the SVN URL that i used for that directory is http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcbuild/branches/fixes_2_6/install/binw32 and and according to the properties, it looks like it is actually dated 11 Dec 2011...

You can still use those files.

Joost

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waldo kitty
to Sven Barth: You can still use 2.6.0, but it won't be supported forever. I would say that you don't…
Sven Barth wrote
On 02.06.2013 18:37, waldo kitty wrote: > 1. can FPC 2.6.0 (bootstrap) be used to bootstrap trunk or do i need to > replace my current binutils/ppc386.exe with the 2.6.2 one? You can still use 2.6.0, but it won't be supported forever.

thanks to you and joost... i will put a 2.6.2 ppc386.exe in place just to be sure ;)

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> 2. do i need to update my binutils/i386-win32 directory? everything in there > is physically dated 21 May 2012 which i guess is when i reinstalled everything > from scratch the last time... the SVN URL that i used for that directory is > http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcbuild/branches/fixes_2_6/install/binw32 and > and according to the properties, it looks like it is actually dated 11 Dec > 2011... I would say that you don't need to update it.

both of you also tell me that these are ok so i will leave them as they are...

thanks for the prompt responses guys! :)

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