[tex-k] [WEB] Compile TANGLE with Free Pascal

[Wolfgang Helbig]

Welcome to the club! My little distribution tex-fpc is based on free 
pascal as well. You might want to compare the tangle.ch files.
I don't think there is a bug in tangle.web. tangle only tries to match 
the first line of a change block. If it found one, it compares the other 
lines and complains if they don't match. c.f. the web user manual.
Greetings,
Wolfgang
> Dear all,
>
> Today I succeeded to compile the original TANGLE.WEB with the Free 
> Pascal compiler (https://www.freepascal.org). The change file 
> https://github.com/ascherer/web/blob/master/tangle.ch contains the 
> necessary modifications to adapt Knuth's Pascal-H code to the 
> conventions of FPC.
>
> Starting with the TANGLE executable of TeX Live, the incantation
>
> $> tangle -uppercase tangle
> $> fpc tangle.p
> $> ./tangle tangle.web tangle.ch tangle.pas tangle.pool
>
> produces identical source files TANGLE.P and TANGLE.PAS.
>
> Note that the "original" TANGLE(.WEB) must contain a bug, because both 
> variants of the TANGLE executable issue an error message '1 of the 
> preceding lines failed to match' if I add line 306 of TANGLE.WEB into 
> the TANGLE.CH file.  Otherwise, I'm happy with the result.
>
> Cheers,
> Andreas


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Wolfgang Helbig
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