Comment 40 for bug 275688
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| Marco van de Voort (marco-freepascal) wrote | #40 |
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(Get the code!)
FPC keeps a typical building chain where release N is only guaranteed to build with release N-1. One can be lucky from time to time with point releases (x.y.n also buildable with x.y.n-1)
Note that the only binary that is really necessary from the older release to bootstrap is the compiler binary itself (ppc386 or ppcx64 for x86_64).
I don't know what the debian/ubuntu policies are, but in FreeBSD afaik this was avoided by having a separate port for the bootstrap compiler, which can be quicker and easier bumped than the main release.