On Wed, 9 May 2012 18:44:08 +0200 Jonas Maebe wrote: > There is no real Solaris maintainer. Pierre sometimes works on it and I > run nightly Solaris/SPARC regression tests (for as long as I still have > access to a Solaris/SPARC machine), but I definitely do not support the > platform. Solaris/SPARC is on life support, as far as I am concerned: I > try to make sure that port doesn't get new bugs, but I don't work on > fixing any existing bugs in it. I don't know to what extent Pierre wants > to support Solaris/i386 and Solaris/x86-64.
Thanks, that is important to know. My main use would be on Solaris, possibly the SPARC version so if the project doesn't view that platform as having a future I would rather know now. > > There are no binaries provided by my distribution. It's Slackware! But > > the question was, was it really necessary to use such a recent glibc? > It's a matter of what the libc version happens to be on the system that > was used to build libgdb, which is simply someone's personal machine. Ok, but if that is what happened I would expect a lot of people not to be able to run fp except maybe Fedora 16 or Gentoo users who always have the latest stuff. I guess I am wrong though or you would already know about it. Maybe it would be better to build on a non-bleeding edge system so people with older distros and pieces could still run everything? I very seldom upgrade but maybe everybody else does. I try to find a good working setup and then don't change it much. That's kind of why I was asking about 2.6.0 since it is the current release. I was planning on staying on that until I had a really good reason not to. > > I believe they are fpc libraries but I will have to check again. Do you > > expect that all of the examples will normally build on Linux without > > errors or is it normal to have some problems? > The examples are probably one of the worst maintained parts of the > distribution, because almost nobody uses them. That said, some of them > certainly will require the development versions of certain libraries to > be installed (e.g., some of them use ncurses, so you'll need to have the > development package of ncurses to be installed to compile them). Thanks for the info here also. I have ncurses and almost every possible development tool and toolkit installed. I am careful not to randomly install non-development libraries though. If the examples are not maintained or used then I'll just do the best I can. I don't have any experience with Pascal so I was glad to see some sample code. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
