Ludo Brands wrote:
Your question, as given unambiguously in the subject line, relates to
2.6.0. I'm telling you, equally unambiguously, that you don't
want to do
that. You might need to start off with an older binary to get
yourself
going, or you might be able to get hold of a binary for 2.6.0, but
having done that, in the case of SPARC, you want to get onto 2.7.1
rather than relying on 2.6.0's correctness.
I have no particular need for 2.6.0, I just normally try to get the
stable release of whatever new thing I decide to try out and I
understood from the website 2.6.0 is the one I should use.
You are, of course, free to ignore my advice.
In any case, 2.6.0 is needed now to build 2.7.1. Just rebuild 2.7.1 from
today on Solaris 10 Intel and it failed miserably with 2.4.4. That worked a
few months ago and the 2.7.1 then build doesn't build todays 2.7.1 neither.
Only 2.6.0 builds 2.7.1 correctly.
But I fully agree: don't do more on Solaris with 2.6.0 than building 2.7.1.
One thing I would stress for the OP's benefit: SPARC 2.6.0 was entirely
able to build itself and Lazarus. It's only when I tried mixing database
access and some heavy floating-point astronomical calculations that the
problems became apparent.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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