Hello,

As maintainer of fpcup[deluxe], I have a fundamental question.

The original source of fpcup gives the possibility to build a cross-compiler either with the compiler build from source or with the bootstrapper that was used to build the compiler from source.

My question: am I correct in assuming that a cross-compiler should always be build with the compiler from the source itself ?

Thanks.

Alfred wrote

My question: am I correct in assuming that a cross-compiler should always be build with the compiler from the source itself ?

It is best, yes. Although this does not happen very often any more, sometimes ppc1 (which is used to build the cross-compiler) does not contain all fixes/features in case the last stable release had a bug that gets triggered by the compiler/rtl code from trunk.

Jonas