Release engineering

Create libgdb.a and or binutils

• - If you have problems building recent binutils or libgdb's on any *nix, and the error is related to intl.h or libintl.a, reconfigure using ../<srcdir>/configure --disable-nls (assuming you use a separate builddir)

OS/CPU specific release engineering

FreeBSD specific Release Engineering

Linux

Get sources, usually done with a command like:

 svn export http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcbuild/tags/release_2_0_2 fpcbuild

Get libgdb for your CPU from ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/contrib/libgdb/, extract it into fpcbuild/fpcsrc/ preserving pathes.

Get the most recent docs package from the ftp site, it's called docs-pdf.tar.gz and copy it into the fpcbuild/ directory.

Change into fpcbuild/ and execute

 install/makepack

Documentation building and LaTeX limits

A lot of TeTeX distributions are configured to never use more than a very small amount of memory. The values chosen are more of the 486 era (several MBs, while now 256MB is considered "entry level").

The Free Pascal documentation is fairly large, and uses a lot of labels for convenient hyperlinked PDS and thus hits this limit.

This can be remedied by modiying the save_size line in texmf.conf to

 save_size=10000

Usually, you can also do this by environment variable.

export save_size=10000
pdflatex rtl.tex