FreePascal
Dan Kegel
dank at kegel.com
Tue Mar 14 20:27:16 UTC 2006
On 3/14/06, Matthew R. Dempsky <mrd at alkemio.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 01:54:21PM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> > Ubuntu builds every package from sources. You cannot build Free Pascal
> > from sources without having a working Free Pascal. That's why binary
> > fpc packages are not available for Ubuntu.
>
> By the same logic, we should not have gcc binary packages.
Building gcc requires a working C compiler, not a working gcc.
Does building Free Pascal require a working *free pascal* compiler,
or can it be done using, say, gpc?
- Dan
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