--- John Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:33:21 -0700 (PDT) > Alan Mead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I just used the keyboard unit for the first time and it's quite > > impressive but I have some questions. > > > > Initially, I couldn't link on my old RH 7.2 machine because FPC > 1.9.4 > > couldn't find the GPM libraries. This is probably a stupid > question > > but is there a way that FPC can find libraries better so that I > don't > > have to ln -s /usr/libgpm.so.1 to /usr/libgpm.so? This has > happened > > with other FPC units... > > Hi Alan. > > Surely someone with more experience will correct me. But for > starters: > > libgpm.so.1 shouldn't be in /usr - it should be either in usr/lib > or > usr/local/lib. In that case, your machine will automatically do the > link, > when it executes ldconfig.
John, thanks for your reply... Sorry, I should have been clearer. And I typed wrong. The library was in /usr/lib but I guess FPC is looking for 'libgpm.so' rather than 'libgpm.so.1' .. it's the '.1' that fools FPC and it's happened before. I don't know if it's a RedHat thing .. because /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 is, itself, a sim link to something like /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1.18.1.. I gather that's the way that one reconciles having the version number in the shared library while trying to let linkers find the libraries... I just wonder why FPC doesn't understand... Maybe this is considered such a trivial matter to people that can write compilers :) Or maybe this is an incompatibility between Linux distro's and RH just loses? [snip] > > And finally, I pasted my little example program below. When I > run it > > in Konsole and it has some funny behavior. Like Shift-F2 is > reported > > as F4 and Control-U is reported as 'SHIFT' ^A and ^E don't seem [snip] > > Can't help you there. I've had other programs mis-behave... The command history bits of my favorite text adventure game works fine in console mode but screws things up when I'm in Konsole. I spent a little while goggling around about keyboards and character sets and X ... but X is probably the area of Linux that I know the least and I didn't understand any of the stuff I found. -Alan _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
